Attitude, Breast Cancer, Practice Guideline
Conditions
Keywords
U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, Patient attitude, Mammogram, Guideline
Brief summary
The purpose of this study was to determine attitudes regarding the 2009 USPSTF Guidelines for breast cancer screening for women in their 40's and assess the effect of one of two newspaper articles on their attitudes. The population studied was women seeing their private gynecologist for annual exams in the 39-49 year old age group.
Detailed description
Subjects completed a baseline questionnaire listing demographics, previous experience with mammograms, and acquaintances with breast cancer. They then were randomly assigned one of two articles (one favorable and one unfavorable) that had been published in the newspaper regarding the USPSTF breast cancer screening guidelines. Their attitudes towards the safety of the guidelines and their willingness to comply with them was then measured.
Interventions
OTHERread unfavorable article prior to answering questions
article title: Taking a hit on healthcare- why that's women's work
OTHERread favorable article prior to answering questions
read A Backlash of Mistrust
Sponsors
University of Massachusetts, Worcester
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE (Caregiver)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
FEMALE
Age
39 Years to 49 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* women aged 39-49 seeing their gynecologist for routine preventive care
Exclusion criteria
* women not aged 39-49 * women with breast cancer * women not able to read English
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Willingness to forgo mammograms from age 40-49 | within 15 minutes of completion of reading assigned article |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Do you feel that the mammogram recommendations safe? | within 15 minutes of completion of reading assigned article |
| Do attitudes regarding the breast cancer screening guidelines differ by acquaintance with breast cancer? | within 15 minutes of completion of reading assigned article |
| Does willingness to forgo mammograms in their 40's differ by previous false alarms with mammography? | within 15 minutes of completion of reading assigned article |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed