Co-designing planning interventions to facilitate participation in mail-out bowel cancer screening.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Population mail-out bowel cancer screening programs save lives through prevention and early detection; however, their effectiveness is constrained by low participation rates. Many non-participants are "intenders"; that is, they intend to screen but fail to do so, often forgetting or procrastinating. This study aimed to co-design interventions to increase screening participation among intenders in the Australian National Bowel Cancer Screening Program.

Methods

Three semi-structured interviews, and one online cross-sectional survey, were conducted between August 2021 and December 2022. Interviews with people who had completed and returned their latest screening kit ("completers") were first conducted to identify the planning strategies they had used. Using survey da

SUBMITTER: Anderson LE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11375888 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature