Titre
Exploring the reasons for non-participation of women in a breast cancer screening campaign
Type
article
Institution
UNIL/CHUV/Unisanté + institutions partenaires
Périodique
Auteur(s)
Meystre-Agustoni, G.
Auteure/Auteur
Dubois-Arber, F.
Auteure/Auteur
De Landtsheer, J.P.
Auteure/Auteur
Paccaud, F.
Auteure/Auteur
Liens vers les personnes
Liens vers les unités
ISSN
1101-1262
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
1998
Volume
8
Numéro
2
Première page
143
Dernière page/numéro d’article
145
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Langue
anglais
Résumé
Study objectives: to determine the reasons for non-participation in a programme of screening for breast cancer.
Design: semi-structured telephone interview. Setting: a pilot programme of screening by mammography, targeted at all women aged between 50 and 70 years in two regions of Switzerland. Population: a sample of 33 non-partidpants were interviewed.
Main results: few non-participants took advantage of the screening tests for female cancers. However, only one-quarter were determined never to have a mammography. The others did not participate because of organizational problems (one-quarter) or because they did not understand what a mammography involved (half).
Conclusions: there is considerable scope for increasing the rate of participation. Efforts must be made to improve the information directed at the socially less favoured (the objectives of the screening and the organizational arrangements). Family doctors are frequently consulted and are best placed to communicate this information. Theyshould be encouraged to play a much more active part in this respect.
Design: semi-structured telephone interview. Setting: a pilot programme of screening by mammography, targeted at all women aged between 50 and 70 years in two regions of Switzerland. Population: a sample of 33 non-partidpants were interviewed.
Main results: few non-participants took advantage of the screening tests for female cancers. However, only one-quarter were determined never to have a mammography. The others did not participate because of organizational problems (one-quarter) or because they did not understand what a mammography involved (half).
Conclusions: there is considerable scope for increasing the rate of participation. Efforts must be made to improve the information directed at the socially less favoured (the objectives of the screening and the organizational arrangements). Family doctors are frequently consulted and are best placed to communicate this information. Theyshould be encouraged to play a much more active part in this respect.
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