Women’s Reports of Dense Breast Notification Following Mammography: Findings from the 2015 National Health Interview Survey

The impact of breast density notification on psychosocial outcomes in racial and ethnic minorities: A systematic review

“…Table 1 summarises the study characteristics. There were 28 quantitative studies (20 cross-sectional studies including two with a qualitative interview component [ 17 , [25] , [26] , [27] , [28] , [29] , [30] , [31] , [32] , [33] , [34] , [35] , [36] , [37] , [38] , [39] , [40] , [41] , [42] , [43] ], five cohort studies including one with a qualitative survey component [ [44] , [45] , [46] , [47] , [48] ], two randomised trials [ 49 , 50 ] and one quasi-experimental study [ 51 ], and four qualitative studies (three interviews [ [52] , [53] , [54] ] and one focus group [ 55 ]). Among quantitative studies, the sample size ranged from 77 to 631,478.…”

“…All but one study [ 46 ] were conducted in the US. Among US studies, there were eight national studies [ 17 , [26] , [27] , [28] , [29] , [30] , 40 , 41 ], six from New York [ [42] , [43] , [44] , 47 , 48 , 54 ], six from Michigan [ [32] , [33] , [34] , [35] , 49 , 51 ], two from Massachusetts [ 52 , 53 ], two from Arizona [ 39 , 50 ] and one from California [ 45 ], Virginia [ 25 ], Washington [ 31 ], Florida [ 55 ], District of Columbia [ 38 ], Maryland [ 37 ] and Connecticut [ 36 ] respectively.…”

“…Four were conducted prior to the BD notification mandate [ 34 , 35 , 38 , 49 ], 18 post-mandate (including the Australian study, conducted in Western Australia which has a BD notification policy but not a mandate) [ 25 , [31] , [32] , [33] , 36 , 37 , 39 , [42] , [43] , [44] , [46] , [47] , [48] , 50 , [52] , [53] , [54] , [55] ], eight US-wide studies capturing women residing in both BD notification and non-BD notification mandated states [ 17 , [26] , [27] , [28] , [29] , [30] , 40 , 41 ], and two studying both pre- and post-legislation periods [ 45 , 51 ]. Four assessed general BD information [ 25 , 39 , 40 , 49 ], 16 assessed the woman's personal BD notification [ 17 , 28 , 30 , [32] , [33] , [34] , 36 , 41 , [45] , [46] , [47] , [51] , [52] , [53] , [54] , [55] ], three gave hypothetical BD notifications [ 37 , 42 , 43 ] and nine assessed both general and personal BD information [ 26 , 27 , 29 , 31 , 35 ...…”

“…In 12 studies, race and ethnicity (or a related factor) was a main study factor [ 17 , [32] , [33] , [34] , [35] , 39 , 47 , [49] , [50] , [51] , 53 , 54 ], including four which included only Hispanic, Latina or Spanish-speaking women [ 39 , 50 , 53 , 54 ], and in 20 studies race and ethnicity was a covariate [ [25] , [26] , [27] , [28] , [29] , [30] , [31] , [36] , [37] , [38] , [40] , [41] , [42] , [43] , [44] , [45] , [46] , 48 , 52 , 55 ]. It should be noted that 12 studies reported on Asian communities [ 17 , 25 , 26 , 28 , 29 , [36] , [37] , [38] , [45] , [46] , [47] , 55 ], however these studies were all conducted in the United States except for one study that was conducted in Australia [ 47 ].…”

“…The proportion of women in the sample who were racial and ethnic minorities ranged from 5 to 100%. Fifteen studies discussed methodologies specific to the recruitment or data collection from linguistically-diverse women [ 17 , [25] , [26] , [27] , [28] , [29] , 39 , 40 , 42 , 44 , 48 , 50 , [53] , [54] , [55] ], while in the other 17, no specific methodology was mentioned [ [30] , [31] , [32] , [33] , [34] , [35] , [36] , [37] , [38] , 41 , 43 , [45] , [46] , [47] , 49 , 51 , 52 ].…”