Associations between socioeconomic factors and PSA testing in a population-based organised testing programme and routine healthcare: a register-based study of 50-year-old men.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Population-based, organised prostate cancer testing (OPT) programmes were started in Sweden in 2020. The influence of socioeconomic factors on prostate cancer testing in this setting is not known. We examined associations between socioeconomic factors and (1) participation in OPT and (2) unorganised prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing.

Methods and analysis

Region Västra Götaland's OPT programme invited 21 174 men aged 50 years in 2020-2021. Regional data on unorganised testing in 2013-2014 of men aged 50-52 years were retrieved from Western Sweden Study of Opportunistic Prostate Cancer Screening database. Data on income, education, cohabitation and country of birth were collected from Statistic Sweden. Univariable and multivariable Poisson regression was used t

SUBMITTER: Jarbur E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11557721 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature