Table 2.
Cancer message components.
| Daughter | Mother | Concordance* | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Message Point | N | % | N | % | % |
| Breast cancer is the most common cancer that African American women are diagnosed with | 19 | 73.1 | 21 | 80.8 | 92.3 |
| How many African American women died of breast cancer in 2009 | 22 | 84.6 | 20 | 76.9 | 92.3 |
| How many African American women often go to the doctor when it's too late | 23 | 88.5 | 23 | 88.5 | 100 |
| More African American women die of breast cancer than do white women | 21 | 80.8 | 21 | 80.8 | 92.3 |
| Asked her mother to get a mammogram | 22 | 84.6 | 21 | 80.8 | 88.5 |
| Why it was important for family reasons why she should get a mammogram | 20 | 76.9 | 20 | 76.9 | 92.3 |
| Cervical cancer can be treated if found early | 15 | 57.7 | 18 | 69.2 | 88.5 |
| How many women died from cervical cancer in 2009 | 19 | 73.1 | 18 | 69.2 | 96.2 |
| Asked her mother to get a pap smear | 21 | 80.8 | 20 | 76.9 | 96.2 |
| Why it was important for family reasons why she should get a pap smear | 20 | 76.9 | 20 | 76.9 | 92.3 |
Note.
*
Concordance is the percentage of mother-daughter dyads where the daughter remembered to tell a specific point and the mother accurately reported that she heard this point.