TY - JOUR
T1 - Influence of information sources on hepatitis b screening behavior and relevant psychosocial factors among Asian immigrants
AU - Tanaka, Miho
AU - Strong, Carol
AU - Lee, Sunmin
AU - Juon, Hee Soon
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments We would like to thank the participants in the study. We appreciate our research assistants’ dedicated efforts to collect data from the participants. This study was supported by the National Cancer Institute, Award Number R25CA129042. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Cancer Institute or the National Institutes of Health.
PY - 2013/8
Y1 - 2013/8
N2 - This study examines how different information sources relate to Health Belief Model constructs, hepatitis B virus (HBV) knowledge, and HBV screening. The Maryland Asian American Liver Cancer Education Program administered a survey of 877 Asian immigrants. The most common sources of information identified by the multiple-answer questions were newspapers (39.8 %), physicians (39.3 %), friends (33.8 %), TV (31.7 %), and the Internet (29.5 %). Path analyses - controlling for age, sex, educational level, English proficiency, proportion of life in U.S., health insurance coverage, and family history of HBV infection - showed that learning about HBV from physicians had the strongest direct effect; friends had a marginal indirect effect. Perceived risk, benefits, and severity played limited roles in mediation effects. Path analysis results differed by ethnicity. Physician-based HBV screening intervention would be effective, but should be complemented with community health campaigns through popular information sources for the uninsured.
AB - This study examines how different information sources relate to Health Belief Model constructs, hepatitis B virus (HBV) knowledge, and HBV screening. The Maryland Asian American Liver Cancer Education Program administered a survey of 877 Asian immigrants. The most common sources of information identified by the multiple-answer questions were newspapers (39.8 %), physicians (39.3 %), friends (33.8 %), TV (31.7 %), and the Internet (29.5 %). Path analyses - controlling for age, sex, educational level, English proficiency, proportion of life in U.S., health insurance coverage, and family history of HBV infection - showed that learning about HBV from physicians had the strongest direct effect; friends had a marginal indirect effect. Perceived risk, benefits, and severity played limited roles in mediation effects. Path analysis results differed by ethnicity. Physician-based HBV screening intervention would be effective, but should be complemented with community health campaigns through popular information sources for the uninsured.
KW - Asian American
KW - Health Belief Model
KW - Health information
KW - Hepatitis B
KW - Screening
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U2 - 10.1007/s10903-012-9753-9
DO - 10.1007/s10903-012-9753-9
M3 - Article
C2 - 23238580
AN - SCOPUS:84880176980
SN - 1557-1912
VL - 15
SP - 779
EP - 787
JO - Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
JF - Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
IS - 4
ER -