NCT01267877

Patient Perception of Mammogram Guidelines

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 247 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Massachusetts, Worcester · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 39 Years – 49 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

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.

Conditions

• Attitude
• Practice Guideline
• Breast Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	read unfavorable article prior to answering questions	article title: "Taking a hit on healthcare- why that's women's work"
OTHER	read favorable article prior to answering questions	read "A Backlash of Mistrust"

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-03-01
• Primary completion: 2010-06-01
• Completion: 2010-06-01
• First posted: 2010-12-29
• Last updated: 2017-01-05

Locations

4 sites across 1 country: United States