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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Health Commun. 2021 Apr 25;37(9):1147–1156. doi: 10.1080/10410236.2021.1913837

Table 2.

Survey questions for each tailoring variable

Variable Source of Item Survey questions for each variable Tailoring Outcome
First Level of Tailoring: Racial & Gender Centrality
Manhood x Race:
(Scale of 0=Not at all important to 10= Very important)
Sellers et al. (1998) - Scoring instructions for the Multidimensional Inventory of Black Identity (MIBI), Sellers –Multidimensional model of racial identity  • How important is being African American to your overall identity?
 • How important is being a man to your overall identity?
High/Low score for each question places men into one of four ‘buckets’:
 • Black Man (High Manhood/High Race)
 • Man (High Manhood/Low Race)
 • African American (Low Manhood/High Race)
 • Me/Person (Low Manhood/Low Race)
Second level of Tailoring: Salience
Family Responsibilities Affect Health (FRAH):
(Scale of 1= Strongly disagree to 5=Strongly agree)
Gender Role Conflict Scale –Factor 4 –conflicts between work and family relations (O’Neil, Helms, Gable, David, & Wrightsman, 1986) and additional CRMH adapted items  • I feel torn between my family responsibilities and caring for my health.
 • My family responsibilities affect the amount of time I spend on my health.
 • Finding time to exercise is difficult for me because of family obligations.
Sum of scale produces High (7–15)/Low (0–6) score for FRAH variable.
Family Responsibilities Affect Life (FRAL):
(Scale of 1= Strongly disagree to 5=Strongly agree)
Gender Role Conflict Scale –Factor 4 –conflicts between work and family relations (O’Neil et al., 1986) and additional CRMH adapted items  • My family responsibilities keep me from pursuing other leisure time physical activities (going on walks, playing sports with friends, etc.)
 • My family responsibilities often disrupt other parts of my life (health or leisure).
 • The stress I feel from a need to fulfill family responsibility affects/hurts my life.
Sum of scale produces High (7–15)/Low (0–6) score for FRAL variable.
Faith:
(Scale of 0=Never to 5=Many times a day)
Daily Spiritual Experiences Scale –6 item version of the scale used in the Brief Multidimensional Measure of Religiosity and Spirituality developed by selection of items from the Daily Spiritual Experiences scale (Underwood & Teresi, 2002)  • I feel God's presence
 • I feel strength and comfort in my religious or spiritual tradition
 • I feel deep inner peace and harmony
 • I desire to be closer to or in union with God
 • I am spiritually touched by the beauty of creation
 • I feel God's love for me, directly or through others
Sum of scale produces High (25–30)/Low (0–24) score for Faith variable.