Journal
JOURNAL OF RELIGION & HEALTH
Volume 57, Issue 1, Pages 146-156Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10943-017-0427-8
Keywords
Church-based health promotion; Community health advisors; Cancer screening; Leadership
Funding
- National Cancer Institute [R01CA147313]
- NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE [R01CA147313] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Leadership plays a role in the success of an organization's initiatives. We examined church leaders' support-as perceived by lay community health advisor (CHA) interventionists-and implementation outcomes in a cancer early detection trial. CHAs perceived that their pastors: helped promote the intervention (M = 3.1/4, SD 1.2) and attended about half (M = 1.6/3, SD 1.3) the workshops. CHAs used marginally more techniques to recruit members when they perceived pastors were engaged in promoting the program (r (s) = .44, p = .08). Pastor attendance was positively associated with member enrollment (r (s) = .50, p < .05). Pastor support may be related to receptivity of both CHAs and congregants to engage in church health promotion.
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