Effects of public education about breast and uterine cervix cancer screening for female non-regular employment

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24500814
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Applied health science
• Research Institution: Shiga University of Medical Science
• Principal Investigator: MIYAMATSU Naomi 滋賀医科大学, 医学部, 教授 (90314145)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): OKAMURA Tomonori 慶應義塾大学, 医学部, 教授 (00324567) ; SHIMA Azusa 滋賀医科大学, 医学部, 客員助教 (20635958) ; TANAKA Hideo 愛知県がんセンター, 疫学予防部, 部長 (60470168) ; MEKATA Eiji 滋賀医科大学, 医学部, 講師 (80314152) ; GODAI Kayo 滋賀医科大学, 医学部, 助手 (30708681) ; MORINAGA Miho 京都看護大学, 看護学部, 准教授 (60324571)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: がん検診 / 受診勧奨 / 職域 / 女性 / 行動変容 / 介入研究 / 無作為化 / 啓発媒体開発

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Developing enlightenment strategies is important for improvement of health prone behaviors. We evaluated the effect of different information sources on breast cancer screening attendance by stratified randomized controlled study. One of the information sources was a simple leaflet describing breast cancer screening subsidy and the other was a comic book, emphasizing the importance of cancer screening appealing to middle-aged women emotionally. A total of 1,824 workers who had never attended a breast cancer screening were allocated into four groups: 1) control; 2) leaflet; 3) comic book; and 4) leaflet and comic book. In the group aged 30-49, the odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals for the new attendance were 2.0 (0.6-6.4) for group 2; 1.8 (0.6-5.9) for group 3; and 2.9 (1.0-8.4) for group 4. This difference among four groups was not observed in other age groups. This study suggested the importance of the combined and targeted information on the cancer screening attendance.

Free Research Field

生活習慣病看護学