Novel Men’s Health Curriculum Increases Fraternity Members’ Knowledge, Confidence, and Willingness to Seek Help for Health Concerns

Wade R. Gutierrez; Margaret Gannon; Aaron M. Scherer; Amy Pearlman

doi:10.1016/j.urology.2023.05.024

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Novel Men’s Health Curriculum Increases Fraternity Members’ Knowledge, Confidence, and Willingness to Seek Help for Health Concerns

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Novel Men’s Health Curriculum Increases Fraternity Members’ Knowledge, Confidence, and Willingness to Seek Help for Health Concerns

Wade R. Gutierrez, Margaret Gannon, Aaron M. Scherer and Amy Pearlman

Urology (Ridgewood, N.J.), Vol.178, pp.21-25

08/2023

DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2023.05.024

PMCID: PMC10526888

PMID: 37271186

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To evaluate fraternity members’ men’s health knowledge, confidence in understanding, and likelihood of seeking help for men’s health concerns and to assess the impact of a novel men’s health curriculum on each of these measures. Members of six undergraduate fraternities (n = 189). Participants viewed a 45-minute presentation about men’s health topics and completed before and after surveys. The presentation increased men’s health knowledge, confidence in understanding men’s health concerns and when/where to seek help, and likelihood of seeking help for men’s health concerns. Health knowledge did not correlate with confidence or likelihood of seeking help. Confidence positively correlated with likelihood of seeking help before and after the presentation. A short presentation on common men’s health topics increases health knowledge, confidence, and likelihood of seeking help for these concerns. Increased confidence in understanding, rather than health knowledge, was associated with increased willingness to seek help.

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Title: Subtitle: Novel Men’s Health Curriculum Increases Fraternity Members’ Knowledge, Confidence, and Willingness to Seek Help for Health Concerns
Creators: Wade R. Gutierrez - University of Iowa
Margaret Gannon - University of Chicago
Aaron M. Scherer - University of Iowa
Amy Pearlman
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Urology (Ridgewood, N.J.), Vol.178, pp.21-25
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2023.05.024
PMID: 37271186
PMCID: PMC10526888
NLM abbreviation: Urology
ISSN: 0090-4295
eISSN: 1527-9995
Publisher: Elsevier Inc
Grant note: DOI: 10.13039/100000049, name: National Institute on Aging, award: 1K01AG065440
Language: English
Electronic publication date: 06/02/2023
Date published: 08/2023
Academic Unit: General Internal Medicine; Internal Medicine
Record Identifier: 9984426745902771

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