Black older women were found to have a high mean level of adherence to recommended health-protecting behaviors. Participants perceived that adherence to health-protecting behaviors played a highly important role in helping them to live a long and health life. Nurses must direct increased attention and intervention to the importance of practicing primary prevention behaviors as an assertion of control over the future health, well-being, and quality of life of Black older women.
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