Facilitating Participation in a Prostate Cancer Risk Assessment Program
Prostate Cancer
About this trial
This is an interventional prevention trial for Prostate Cancer focused on measuring Cognitive-affective preparation, prostate cancer counseling
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Caucasian men, 34 and 69 years of age, at least one first or second degree relative with prostate cancer
OR
- African American men, 35 and 69 years of age
Exclusion Criteria:
- cancer diagnosis
- difficulty communicating in English
- impaired competency to give informed consent.
Sites / Locations
- Fox Chase Cancer Center
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
Active Comparator
Cognitive Affective Preparation
General Health Education
Forty five minute cognitive-affective preparation session, wherein individuals were encouraged to experience and self-assess their personal reactions to the information they had just received about their prostate cancer risk status, and to anticipate ("pre-live") and role play their potential psychological reactions to normal and abnormal test results and associated follow-up diagnostic and management recommendations. Combined with standard Prostate Risk Assessment Program (Group Prostate Cancer Education Session, Individual Counseling, Screening feedback)
A general health educational comparison session administered by research staff in order to equate for factual content, time, and attention. Participants in this session received information of relevance to men at risk for Pca, focusing on recommendations for general health (i.e., diet, exercise, alcohol use, and smoking) and were encouraged to freely probe, explore, and discuss their own attitudes, beliefs, expectations, and feelings about these topics in an interactive format. Combined with standard Prostate Risk Assessment Program (Group Prostate Cancer Education Session, Individual Counseling, Screening feedback)