Among the 333 minority women included for the final analysis, the majority of the women were unemployed, and only one-third had some form of medical insurance. Study population characteristics are described in Table 1.

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Subjects were participants in another survey, which evaluated the preventive practices in minority women. A full description of the cross-sectional study is published elsewhere. A convenience sample of women aged 50 and above were recruited for the survey from the inpatient and outpatient units of a teaching hospital that predominately serves minority patients. Internal medicine [...]

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INTRODUCTION
Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) decreased sharply in the 1970s because of the risk of associated endometrial cancer (generic Provera is used for treating certain menstrual problems or uterine problems). However, the use of HRT has slowly increased since the 1980s because of the beneficial effects demonstrated in several epidemiological studies. These studies have shown long-term [...]

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The women who participated in this study spontaneously listed among their top four most serious health threats for African-American women the same four most common causes of death as reported by the Centers for Disease Control (heart disease, cancer, cerebrovascular disease and diabetes). However, the considerable variations in their levels of awareness of each disease [...]

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Top Health Problems
One of the survey questions asked participants to list the top four most serious health threats for African-American women. Half (50.4%) of the participants listed four health threats, 26.4% listed three, 13.5% listed two, 4.9% listed one and 4.7% provided no response.
Table 1 shows the four health problems most frequently mentioned by the [...]

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Women responded to 10 closed-ended statements related to their perceptions of their ability to influence their own health outcomes (Table 6). The women’s discernment of the subtle phrasing differences in the series of attitudinal statements suggested that they had read and understood each question. The women’s responses strongly suggested that they know there are things [...]

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Instrument Development
While it would have been ideal to use an instrument that had previously been validated for this data collection, no instrument was identified that addressed the specific questions that were the focus of this inquiry. Hence, an instrument was developed and pilot tested, first with focus interviews and focus groups and then with a [...]

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