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. 2010 Jun;22(3):218-37.
doi: 10.1521/aeap.2010.22.3.218.

Taking It to the Pews: a CBPR-guided HIV awareness and screening project with black churches

Jannette Berkley-Patton  1 , Carole Bowe-Thompson, Andrea Bradley-Ewing, Starlyn Hawes, Erin Moore, Eric Williams, David Martinez, Kathy Goggin
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Taking It to the Pews: a CBPR-guided HIV awareness and screening project with black churches

Jannette Berkley-Patton et al. AIDS Educ Prev. 2010 Jun.

Abstract

Utilizing a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach is a potentially effective strategy for exploring the development, implementation, and evaluation of HIV interventions in African American churches. This CBPR-guided study describes a church-based HIV awareness and screening intervention (Taking It to the Pews [TIPS]) that fully involved African American church leaders in all phases of the research project. Findings from the implementation and evaluation phases indicated that church leaders delivered TIPS Tool Kit activities on an ongoing basis (about twice a month) over a 9-month period. TIPS church members were highly exposed to TIPS activities (e.g., 91% reported receiving HIV educational brochures, 84% heard a sermon about HIV). Most (87%) believed that the church should talk about HIV, and 77% believed that the church should offer HIV screening. These findings suggest that implementing an HIV intervention in Black church settings is achievable, particularly when a CBPR approach is used.

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TIPS responsive reading.
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TIPS Implementation (N = 162 delivered activities/materials).
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