CDC COMMUNITY GUIDE: Cancer Prevention & Control, Client-Oriented Screening Interventions: Small Media
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An Evidence-Based Practice
Description
Small media include videos and printed materials such as letters, brochures, and newsletters. These materials can be used to inform and motivate people to be screened for cancer. They can provide information tailored to specific individuals or targeted to general audiences.
The Community Preventive Services Task Force recommends interventions that use small media based on strong evidence of their effectiveness in increasing:
• Breast cancer screening by mammography
The Community Preventive Services Task Force recommends interventions that use small media based on strong evidence of their effectiveness in increasing:
• Breast cancer screening by mammography
Results / Accomplishments
Results from the Systematic Reviews:
Breast Cancer:
Nineteen studies qualified for the systematic review, two were excluded from the final analysis.
• Proportion of study participants completing screening by mammography: median increase of 7.0 percentage points (21 study arms)
• Interventions were effective when tailored: 7.0 percentage point median increase (7 study arms)
• Interventions also were effective when untailored: 5.3 percentage point median increase (14 study arms)
• Reviewed studies were conducted in both rural and urban communities and among different racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups.
Breast Cancer:
Nineteen studies qualified for the systematic review, two were excluded from the final analysis.
• Proportion of study participants completing screening by mammography: median increase of 7.0 percentage points (21 study arms)
• Interventions were effective when tailored: 7.0 percentage point median increase (7 study arms)
• Interventions also were effective when untailored: 5.3 percentage point median increase (14 study arms)
• Reviewed studies were conducted in both rural and urban communities and among different racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups.
About this Promising Practice
Primary Contact
The Community Guide
1600 Clifton Rd, NE
MS E69
Atlanta, GA 30329
(404) 498-1827
communityguide@cdc.gov
https://www.thecommunityguide.org/
1600 Clifton Rd, NE
MS E69
Atlanta, GA 30329
(404) 498-1827
communityguide@cdc.gov
https://www.thecommunityguide.org/
Topics
Health / Cancer
Source
Community Guide Branch Epidemiology and Analysis Program Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Location
USA
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Target Audience
Adults