An intervention to increase breast and cervical cancer screening in low income African-American women

Datos Bibliográficos

ID13855567
AutoresSteven Whitman (Chicago Department of Public Health, autor de correspondencia), Loretta Lacey (University of Illinois Chicago), David Ansell (0000-0001-9575-1509, John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County), Jade Dell (Chicago Department of Public Health), Edwin Chen (0000-0003-2477-3537, University of Illinois Chicago), Clyde W Phillips (University of Illinois Chicago)
Año1994
Volumen17
Número1
Páginas56-63
Fecha de publicación1994-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaFamily & Community Health (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0160-6379 • E-ISSN: 1550-5057
EditorialLippincott Williams & Wilkins (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1097/00003727-199404000-00008
OpenAlexW2326919359
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1

Although early screening and treatment are effective against breast and cervical cancer, screening remains far below the National Cancer Institute goals for the year 2000. Furthermore, the disenfranchised are often least screened. In response, an intervention was designed to increase the proportion of poor African-American women receiving Pap smears, breast examinations, and mammograms. The proportion of women who received Pap smears rose from 12% at baseline to 26% after the intervention, the proportion receiving breast examinations rose from 6% to 18%, and the proportion receiving mammograms rose from 3% to 11%. Screening proportions decreased in the control group

Breast cancer · Breast cancer screening · Cancer · Cervical cancer · Gynecology · Intervention (counseling · Low income · Mammography · Obstetrics · Pap smears · Cervical Cancer and HPV Research · Global Cancer Incidence and Screening · Medicine · Nursing · Internal Medicine