The Latina Breast Cancer Screening Sacle Beliefs about breast cancer and breast cancer screening

• Published in: Journal of health psychology Vol. 14; no. 7; pp. 944 - 955
• Main Authors: Borrayo, Evelinn A., González, Patricia, Swaim, Randall, Marcus, AL, Flores, Estevan, Espinoza, Paula
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.10.2009; SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Attitude to Health; Beliefs; Breast cancer; Breast Neoplasms - diagnosis; Breasts; Cancer; Clinical assessment; Colorado; Culture; Female; Health; Health beliefs; Hispanic Americans; Hispanics; Humans; Latin American cultural groups; Mammography; Mass Screening - psychology; Medical screening; Middle Aged; Predictive validity; Psychology; Reliability; Surveys and Questionnaires - standards; Colorado; breast cancer; instrument validation; Hispanic; cultural health beliefs
• ISSN: 1359-1053; 1461-7277
• DOI: 10.1177/1359105309341203

The Latina Breast Cancer Screening (LBCS) was developed to measure Latinas’ culturally-shared health beliefs about breast cancer and breast cancer screening. A 60-item LBCS scale was tested with 288 participants and reduced to 35 items using principal components analyses. The 35-item LBCS scale and other measures were administered to a second sample of 147 participants to establish the scale’s validity and reliability. A six-factor solution suggested six LBCS sub-scales. The LBCS in its entirety displayed strong internal consistency (α =.93) with adequate estimates of convergent, discriminant, and predictive validity. The LBCS scale appears to be a valid and reliable measure.