[PDF] Top 20 Predictors of breast cancer screening uptake: a pre intervention community survey in Malaysia

... on breast cancer and breast cancer screening modalities, the incidence of breast cancer and presentation at an advanced stage are still a problem in ...the uptake ... See full document

... five friends who may also be interested in a free clinical breast exam. Once they have contacted each friend and informed them of the program, they simply checked off the checkbox next to their name on the card. ... See full document

... the survey (Table ...cervical cancer was high, as most women cited irregular menses ...cervical cancer. Understanding of the risk factors of cervical cancer was also very poor among the women ... See full document

... of breast cancer at presentation is a major health concern in Segamat Hospital especially among the ...the community, frequent breast cancer awareness campaigns should be ...to ... See full document

... over screening rounds shows that breast screening uptake has improved for the South Asian popu- lation at a faster rate than for the majority population, with the net result that differences ... See full document

... early intervention practices and to evaluate the effectiveness of these services on the different aspects of development of child such as physical, social, emotional, cognition ...to survey the existing ... See full document

... the intervention, found it wasn’t for them and then ceased contact with the study, a situation that clearly doesn’t affect the control ...the intervention group and 93% in the control group, with men in the ... See full document

... The second challenge was related to the recruitment of women. This is in accordance with many other stud- ies that have highlighted the methodological challenges of recruiting minority groups into research trials [26– ... See full document

... 2002). Cancer is one of the health problems most feared by midlife women (Griffiths, 1995) and many women have personal, embodied experience of breast cancer or know of someone who has experienced ... See full document

... A survey of the ...the breast cancer screening methods ...of breast cancer screening efforts and delayed help seeking attitudes of a lot of ethnic groups in different ... See full document

... from breast cancer have declined in the past decades; however, disparities between racial/ethnic groups ...particularly breast cancer morbidity and ...of breast cancer among ... See full document

... This study had several advantages, such as applying the above-mentioned theories and gathering data directly by interviewing the participants at their homes for their con- venience. The results reported in this research ... See full document

... CRC screening programme was conducted using a paper-based format, coordinated by the Cancer Unit, Disease Control Division ...the Cancer Unit to monitor the iFOBT positivity rate, and ... See full document

... the intervention over a course of 4 weeks after the initial ...the pre-intervention data analysis and a comprehensive review of literature of the best practices to improve mammography usage were ... See full document

... colonoscopy and flexible sigmoidoscopy) by ethnic minority populations [15-19, 23, 58- 60]. Studies of American Asian immigrant populations e.g. Koreans and Vietnamese report similar findings [20-22, 61]. Once again, ... See full document

... more breast cancers and had a lower false positive recall rate, compared to double-reading DM ...the screening capabilities of a ...of cancer for a woman, which might be relevant to factors like ... See full document

... In breast cancer screening, information on both benefits and risks needs to be balanced in order to help women make choices about whether to get a ...a cancer [2], can be ...undergo ... See full document

... an intervention to improve uptake of cervical screening by ethnic minority ...increase uptake among South Asian women in Leicester, and a rare study in that it considers Asian sub-groups ... See full document

... cervical cancer screening program has contributed to the reduction in incidence of cervical cancer in developed ...cervical cancer screening uptake, adherence to follow up ... See full document

... low uptake rates have been observed among minority-ethnic women (122, ...in uptake rates, particularly observed in the UK between Asians and non-Asians, is ...(1989-1992) uptake was 60.8% vs. 75.4% ... See full document