Beauty Salon Health Intervention Increases Fruit and Vegetable Consumption in African-American Women

Johnson, Latasha T.; Ralston, Penny A.; Jones, Ethel B.

doi:10.1016/j.jada.2010.03.012

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“…Studies report the success of programs in these locations in addressing cardiovascular disease risk factors in African Americans. [32][33][34] However, there are no data on the use of these venues to provide education about end-of-life care. These findings suggest that hospices are using strategies to reach African Americans that have been successful farther upstream in the disease trajectory.…”

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What are Hospice Providers in the Carolinas Doing to Reach African Americans in Their Service Area?

JohnsonKimberly

PayneRichard

KuchibhatlaMaragatha

2016

Journal of Palliative Medicine

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Background: Experts and national organizations recommend that hospices work to increase service to African Americans, a group historically underrepresented in hospice. Objective: The study objective was to describe strategies among hospices in North and South Carolina to increase service to African Americans and identify hospice characteristics associated with these efforts. Methods: The study was a cross-sectional survey using investigator-developed scales to measure frequency of community education/outreach, directed marketing, efforts to recruit African American staff, cultural sensitivity training, and goals to increase service to African Americans. We used nonparametric Wilcoxon tests to compare mean scale scores by sample characteristics. Results: Of 118 eligible hospices, 79 (67%) completed the survey. Over 80% were at least somewhat concerned about the low proportion of African Americans they served, and 78.5% had set goals to increase service to African Americans. Most were engaged in community education/outreach, with 92.4% reporting outreach to churches, 76.0% to social services organizations, 40.5% to businesses, 35.4% to civic groups, and over half to health care providers; 48.0% reported directed marketing via newspaper and 40.5% via radio. The vast majority reported efforts to recruit African American staff, most often registered nurses (63.75%). Nearly 90% offered cultural sensitivity training to staff. The frequency of strategies to increase service to African Americans did not vary by hospice characteristics, such as profit status, size, or vertical integration, but was greater among hospices that had set goals to increase service to African Americans. Conclusions: Many hospices are engaged in efforts to increase service to African Americans. Future research should determine which strategies are most effective.

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What are Hospice Providers in the Carolinas Doing to Reach African Americans in Their Service Area?

JohnsonKimberly

PayneRichard

KuchibhatlaMaragatha

2016

Journal of Palliative Medicine

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“…Many practitioners have addressed medical issues within churches [14], community fairs, community organizations [15], beauty salons [16,17] and schools [18] embedded in AA communities. While these aforementioned efforts have been documented as effective, they have predominantly targeted women and children.…”

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A Survey of African American Men in Chicago Barbershops: Implications for the Effectiveness of the Barbershop Model in the Health Promotion of African American Men

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The barbershop has been used to target African American (AA) men across age groups for health screenings, health interventions, and for research. However, few studies explore the sociodemographic characteristics of barbers and their clients. Additionally, few have evaluated the client's relative comfort with receiving health information and screenings in barbershops and other non-clinical settings. Lastly, it is unknown whether barbers feel capable of influencing health-decision making of AA men. AA male clients and barbers completed a self-administered survey in barbershops in predominantly AA neighborhoods throughout Chicago, Illinois. We assessed sociodemographic characteristics and attitudes towards receiving physical and mental health education and screenings in barbershops and other settings. Barbers were also surveyed regarding their most and least common clients by age group and their perceived ability to influence the decision-making of AA males by age group. AAs surveyed in barbershops have similar rates of high school completion, poverty and unemployment as the AA residents of their neighborhood. AA males prefer to receive health education and screening in clinician offices followed by barbershops and churches. Barbers reported serving males age 18-39 years of age most frequently while men 50 years and older were the least served group. Overall, barbers did not believe they could influence the decision-making of AA men and in the best case scenario, only 33 % felt they could influence young men 18-29 years old. Barbershops reach AA men that are representative of the demographics of the neighborhood where the barbershop is located. Barbers reach a small population of men over age 49 and feel incapable of influencing the decisions of AAs over age 39. Further studies are needed to assess other locales for accessing older AA men and to evaluate the feasibility of mental health interventions and screenings within the barbershop.

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“…In the past, several studies have utilized beauty salons to implement health education programs aimed at promoting healthy eating and physical activity (Johnson, Ralston, & Jones, 2010; Linnan et al, 2007), adherence to breast cancer screening (Sadler et al, 2011; Wilson et al, 2008), stroke education (Kleindorfer et al, 2008), and chronic disease prevention and organ donation (Madigan, Smith-Wheelock, & Krein, 2007; Resnicow et al, 2010). These studies have targeted different groups, such as Hispanics and African Americans.…”

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Feasibility of Utilizing Ethnic Beauty Salons for Cervical Cancer Screening Education

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The purpose of this study was to assess the feasibility of using ethnic beauty salons to reach out to Vietnamese and Korean American women for cervical cancer screening education. Participants (N = 62) were conveniently recruited from ethnic beauty salons located in Albuquerque, NM. Two feasibility questionnaires were separately administered to cosmetologists and their customers. Findings support the view that ethnic beauty salons can be used as a gateway to reach out to these populations, and cosmetologists have the potential to operate as community lay health workers to deliver cervical cancer screening education aimed at reducing disparities in cervical cancer and screening to their ethnic customers.

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Beauty Salon Health Intervention Increases Fruit and Vegetable Consumption in African-American Women

Cited by 33 publications

References 17 publications

What are Hospice Providers in the Carolinas Doing to Reach African Americans in Their Service Area?

What are Hospice Providers in the Carolinas Doing to Reach African Americans in Their Service Area?

A Survey of African American Men in Chicago Barbershops: Implications for the Effectiveness of the Barbershop Model in the Health Promotion of African American Men

Feasibility of Utilizing Ethnic Beauty Salons for Cervical Cancer Screening Education

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