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| Barriers to screening among participants of a media-promoted breast cancer screening project | | Author(s) | Richard G Roetzheim, Daniel J Van Durme, Harrison J Brownlee |
| Journal title | Cancer Detection and Prevention, vol 17, no 3, 1993 |
| Pages | pp 367-377 |
| Keywords | Older women ; Cancer ; Screening ; Usage [services] ; Publicity ; Television [media] ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Breast cancer detection and awareness projects have been implemented throughout the US in an attempt to increase compliance with screening mammography. Previous studies, however, showed that older women, minorities, and women of lower socio-economic status, fail to respond in representative numbers. This article reports on a project in an area around Tampa, Florida, in co-operation with a local television station which ran an information series on breast cancer screening. 13,215 eligible women called for further information. From this group, 6604 women underwent screening and mammography, and completed a questionnaire. A cross-sectional analysis was conducted to determine if barriers and motivations to screening differed among targeted and non-targeted groups. Targeted groups (older women, minorities, and women from lower socio-economic groups) reported far more barriers to screening and fewer motivating factors in their decision to participate in screening. The project, as designed, did not ensure that targeted groups would take part in representative numbers. Such projects must be tailored to attract those in greatest need of breast cancer screening. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980106236 A |
| Classmark | BD: CK: 3V: QLD: U7: UKL: 3F: 7T * |
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