Intervention recommendations to improve uptake of breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screening among individuals living with serious mental illness.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Few efforts have been made to inform intervention design for increasing the uptake of cancer screening in individuals living with serious mental illness (ILSMI), who have lower cancer screening rates than the general population. This qualitative study explored ILSMI's and their care team member's (CTM) recommendations on the design of a breast, colorectal, and cervical cancer screening intervention for ILSMI.

Methods

Twenty-five ILSMI (mean age: 71.4 years; 60% female) and 15 CTM (mean age: 45.3 years; 80% female) were recruited through purposive sampling. Semi-structured in-depth interviews were used to collect participants' intervention suggestions. Interviews were recorded, transcribed verbatim, and imported into NVivo. Content analysis and the constant comparison

SUBMITTER: Garcia-Alcaraz C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10872785 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature