Table 2.

Other Major Themes

	All Groups	Latino men	Latino women	Black men	Black women
-Screening	-Importance of screening -Importance of knowing family history	-Distinguished between DRE and PSA		-Distinguished between DRE and PSA -Increased awareness of prostate cancer -Role of disparities	-Distinguished between DRE and PSA -Increased awareness of prostate cancer -Role of disparities
-Healthcare seeking			-Financial barriers Women as facilitators -Providers as facilitators -Gender differences in healthcare seeking	-Financial barriers -Women as facilitators	-Financial barriers -Women as facilitators -Gender differences in healthcare seeking
-Communication with providers			-Men more comfortable with male providers	-Providers have financial motivations -Historical cultural distrust of medical profession -Male reluctance to speak to any providers about prostate cancer	-Men more comfortable with male
-Role of religion		-Importance of faith and religion			providers
-Role of stigma	-Prostate cancer is a stigmatized disease		-Threat to sexual identity	-Threat to sexual identity	-Importance of faith and religion
-Fear and avoidance			-Fear of exam process	-Fear of exam process -Fear of positive result -Male avoidance of problem -Male avoidance of telling families	-Threat to sexual identity
-Pushback against stigma /secrecy			-Awareness of misinformation	-Awareness of misinformation -More willing to discuss with age -More willing to discuss after personal experience	-Cultural norm of secrecy around medical problems