Adaptation and Initial Psychometric Evaluation of an Informed Prostate Cancer Screening Decision Self-Efficacy Scale for African-American Men.

Otis L Owens Nikki R WootenAbbas S Tavakoli

Published in: Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities (2020)

Findings suggest the one-factor, 11-item Informed Prostate Cancer Screening Decision Self-Efficacy Scale has excellent psychometric properties and utility in reliably measuring health-related decision self-efficacy in African-American men. Future research is needed to confirm this factor structure among socio-demographically diverse African Americans.

Keyphrases

african american
prostate cancer
psychometric properties
radical prostatectomy
decision making
middle aged
current status