Interventions using mHealth strategies to improve screening rates of cervical cancer: A scoping review

Clinicians’ perceptions of barriers to cervical cancer screening for women living with behavioral health conditions: a focus group study

“…Supporting evidence supports our findings that clinicians lack systems to support identification of patients who are due for cervical screening and follow-up [ 63 ]. Patient reminders in the form of letters, text messages, using mobile applications are strategies that have been found to increase cervical cancer screening and follow-up rates [ 64 – 66 ]. Provision of communication tools alone is insufficient to overcoming barriers to communicating.…”

mHealth Interventions to Improve Cancer Screening and Early Detection: Scoping Review of Reviews

“…Of the 12 reviews, 6 (50%) were systematic reviews [26,27,29,30,32,36], of which 1 (17%) also included a meta-analysis [32]; 4 (33%) were scoping reviews [25,28,31,34]; 1 (8%) was a rapid review [33]; and 1 (8%) was a narrative review [35]. The 12 reviews reported different outcomes of the studies that were relevant to this review of reviews (Table 2): 5 (42%) reported solely the effectiveness of mHealth interventions on cancer screening [26,29,[32][33][34]; 4 (33%) reported outcomes in relation to cancer screening, change in cancer knowledge, and attitudes to screening [25,27,30,31]; 2 (17%) reported outcomes in relation to breast self-examination (BSE) practice [35,36]; and 1 reported outcomes in relation to BSE and cancer screening [28]. Most (7/12, 58%) of the reviews included studies that were conducted mainly in high-income Western countries [25,26,[29][30][31][32][33], whereas 42% (5/12) focused on LMICs [27,28,[34][35][36], of which 20% (1/5) focused solely on sub-Saharan Africa [34].…”

“…The 12 reviews reported different outcomes of the studies that were relevant to this review of reviews (Table 2): 5 (42%) reported solely the effectiveness of mHealth interventions on cancer screening [26,29,[32][33][34]; 4 (33%) reported outcomes in relation to cancer screening, change in cancer knowledge, and attitudes to screening [25,27,30,31]; 2 (17%) reported outcomes in relation to breast self-examination (BSE) practice [35,36]; and 1 reported outcomes in relation to BSE and cancer screening [28]. Most (7/12, 58%) of the reviews included studies that were conducted mainly in high-income Western countries [25,26,[29][30][31][32][33], whereas 42% (5/12) focused on LMICs [27,28,[34][35][36], of which 20% (1/5) focused solely on sub-Saharan Africa [34]. In total, 33% (4/12) of the reviews focused on cervical cancer [25,27,32,34]; 8% (1/12) focused on skin cancer [29]; 8% (1/12) focused on breast cancer [30]; 8% (1/12) examined breast, cervical, lung, and colorectal cancers [26]; 25% (3/12) included any type of cancer [28,31,33]; and 2 reviews focused on disease prevention in general [35,36].…”

“…Most (7/12, 58%) of the reviews included studies that were conducted mainly in high-income Western countries [25,26,[29][30][31][32][33], whereas 42% (5/12) focused on LMICs [27,28,[34][35][36], of which 20% (1/5) focused solely on sub-Saharan Africa [34]. In total, 33% (4/12) of the reviews focused on cervical cancer [25,27,32,34]; 8% (1/12) focused on skin cancer [29]; 8% (1/12) focused on breast cancer [30]; 8% (1/12) examined breast, cervical, lung, and colorectal cancers [26]; 25% (3/12) included any type of cancer [28,31,33]; and 2 reviews focused on disease prevention in general [35,36]. In terms of interventions, 42% (5/12) of the reviews included interventions of various types of mHealth technologies [25,[27][28][29]36], 2 (33%) focused solely on SMS text messages [26,35], 1 (17%) focused on social media interventions [31], 1 (17%) was specifically about mobile apps [30], and 25% (3/12) included any type of communication (mHealth, face-to-face, and other media) [32][33][34].…”

“…Of the 12 reviews, 5 (42%) included telephone call interventions that were delivered by a broad range of personnel [25,27,[32][33][34].…”