Journal
PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
Volume 50, Issue 1-2, Pages 63-67Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2009.08.010
Keywords
Hepatitis B virus; Liver cancer; Cancer prevention; Theory; Community-based Intervention; Health behavior; Disparities; Asians; Ethnic minorities; Cancer screening; Conceptual model
Funding
- National Cancer Institute Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities [U01 CA 114640]
- National Cancer Institute [P01 CA109091-01A1]
- NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE [U01CA114640, P01CA109091] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Mitigating the unequal burden of cancer often involves conducting community-based trials to develop effective intervention strategies to promote cancer-related health behaviors. However, this is challenging due to the simultaneous influence of numerous factors, at multiple levels in the socio-ecological context, on health behavior. A sound conceptual framework can bring order to this complex environment and provide a roadmap for systematically addressing the multiple determinants of the behavior in question. This paper describes the application of The Health Behavior Framework, an integrative conceptual model, in an ongoing Program Project, Liver Cancer Control Interventions for Asian-Americans. The Framework has been integral to shaping all aspects of the three component research trials from selection of the study designs to development of the interventions and data collection instruments. We advocate universal adoption of theory into community-based intervention research as a way to accelerate our ability to develop effective interventions and facilitate synthesis of study results across populations and behavioral outcomes: critical steps in advancing the field of health disparities research. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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