Advancing prevention and screening in younger adults living with low income: development, piloting and acceptability/appropriateness evaluation of A BETTER Life.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In the original BETTER (Building on Existing Tools to Improve Chronic Disease Prevention and Screening in Primary Care) intervention, a "Prevention Practitioner" meets with a participant aged 40-65 years to improve their uptake of prevention activities (e.g. cancer screening, physical activity). The BETTER intervention was found to be effective in a randomised control trial. We adapted BETTER to focus on a younger age group (adults aged 18-39 years) living with low income, a group known to have a higher prevalence of preventable cancers and chronic diseases than their higher-income peers. Here, we describe the development, piloting, and qualitative evaluation of the acceptability of the adapted BETTER intervention ("BETTER Life") to inform future large-scale implementati

SUBMITTER: Lofters AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12822167 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature