Section Navigation. Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Syndicate. Minus Related Pages. Provides low-cost breast and cervical cancer screening and diagnostic services. Community-based intervention designed to increase mammography utilization among low-income women residing in public housing. Designed to increase breast cancer screening by encouraging Medicare beneficiaries to obtain a mammogram.
Designed to promote breast cancer screening by encouraging women to schedule a mammography appointment. Designed to increase breast cancer screening by encouraging women to schedule and keep mammography appointments. Black - not of Hispanic or Latino origin, Hispanic or Latino. Designed to improve follow-up among low-income, ethnic minority women with abnormal mammograms. The program makes use of annual influenza clinics as an opportune setting for promoting breast-cancer screening among older women and for facilitating mammography appointments.
The purpose of the program is to facilitate easy and convenient mammogram appointments, increasing the likelihood that women will obtain mammograms. To promote this cancer screening service, a program facilitator first obtains permission from one or more providers of public influenza clinics in the community to conduct the program during their clinic. Next, the facilitator contacts the certified mammogram providers in the county to obtain their agreement to participate.
Paid or volunteer outreach workers, preferably with a background in health, are recruited and trained to enroll women in the project at the influenza clinics and hand out brochures and other promotional items. The outreach workers forward the participants' contact information to the mammogram providers to schedule mammogram appointments.
The providers notify the program facilitator of the number of women who receive their mammogram, and the results of the mammogram are communicated to both the patient and her personal physician.
Program planning and implementation take approximately 8 months. The program facilitator should begin identifying and meeting with influenza clinic providers in the April prior to the opening of the influenza clinics in the fall. The program is implemented from October through December. The intended audience for this intervention is women aged 50 or older who have not received a mammogram in the last year.
The required resource is the SPARC Program Implementation Manual, which gives the program facilitator step-by-step instruction on how to implement the program. The guide contains all the needed materials and provides sources for ordering brochures and other promotional items.
The program can be managed by one person on a part-time basis, with the help of paid or volunteer outreach workers. Using a quasi-experimental study design, the authors evaluated whether offering women attending community-based influenza clinics the opportunity to receive a telephone call from a radiology department of choice to schedule a mammogram would result in an increase in mammograms performed over a 6-month period. Women who had not received a mammogram in the preceding year and who were aged 50 or older were targeted.
Nine of the 52 advertised influenza clinics in Litchfield County, Connecticut, were randomly selected and invited to participate in the mammography initiative. The nine clinics were further randomized into control five or intervention four clinics. The intervention group was composed of women mean age Perceived barriers that continue to persist are structural barriers, such as the provision of information on breast cancer and screening by family physicians.
A future goal is to improve collaborations between public health and primary care to minimize this barrier.
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