Interventional Education Methods for Increasing Women’s Participation in Breast Cancer Screening Program

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of the three methods of education-individual, individual with an educational brochure for spouses, and group-on participation on breast cancer screening in Turkey. A total of 550 home visits were made and 446 women were interviewed to accrue 327 women for the study, 26.7% of whom reported receiving a screening mammogram within the past 2 years. Participants were divided into one of the three educational groups, and following the educational session, they were invited to attend a breast cancer screening program. The results indicated that the decision to have a screening mammogram was influenced by the method of education and the knowledge score. Women, who were educated, within a group scored the highest. These results demonstrate that group education is an effective method of increasing breast cancer knowledge and screening awareness.

The Effectiveness of Educational Interventions on Breast Cancer Screening Uptake, Knowledge, and Beliefs among Women: A Systematic Review

“…As shown in Table 2 , the gathered studies were published between 2014 and 2019, and were conducted in Malaysia (n = 1) [ 16 ], Iran (n = 7) [ 19 , 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 , 51 , 52 ], United States (n = 6) [ 53 , 54 , 55 , 56 , 57 , 58 ], Turkey (n = 4) [ 10 , 11 , 59 , 60 ], Israel (n = 1) [ 9 ], United Arab Emirates (n = 1) [ 61 ], China (n = 1) [ 62 ], and India (n = 1) [ 63 ]. In addition, the participants were aged 18 years and above.…”

“…In addition, the participants were aged 18 years and above. With sample sizes of between 38 and 598, the participants were enrolled from communities (n = 12) [ 9 , 10 , 11 , 53 , 54 , 55 , 56 , 57 , 58 , 59 , 60 , 61 ] and healthcare settings (n = 6).…”

“…The HBM was the most commonly used model (n = 10) [ 11 , 16 , 19 , 47 , 49 , 50 , 51 , 56 , 60 , 62 ]. The HBM theoretical framework incorporates six constructs, namely: (1) perceived susceptibility, (2) perceived severity, (3) perceived benefits, (4) perceived barriers, (5) cues to action, and (6) self-efficacy.…”

“…As shown in Table 2 and Table 3 , studies assigned the participants either into intervention or control groups individually (n = 13) [ 9 , 10 , 16 , 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 , 52 , 53 , 55 , 56 , 57 , 60 ] or through a unit-based approach (n = 3) [19. 51, 54].…”

Refining and Validating a Two-stage and Web-based Cancer Risk Assessment Tool for Village Doctors in China

“…Steadily growing new cases, high mortality rate combined with lack of radical cures have made prevention and early diagnosis priority strategies stemming the epidemic (Jemal, 2012;Caplan, 2014;Tarraga-Lopez et al, 2014). Tremendous efforts have been invested on public education (e.g., disseminating prevention information via various mass media) (Levano et al, 2014;Seven et al, 2014), screening service, and drug prevention (e.g., use of tamoxifen) and treatment of precancerous conditions (e.g., polyps, Helicobacter pylori infection) (Gao et al, 2013;Hady et al, 2013;Lansdorp-Vogelaar et al, 2013). However, there exists a big gap between actual implementation of preventions and expectations (Gupta et al, 2005).…”