Uptake of screening for breast cancer in patients with mental health problems.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Mental illness is associated with physical illness and mortality from a variety of causes including cancer. There is little information on screening attendance among the mentally ill population. An audit was conducted of a breast screening service in inner London to determine uptake rates in women with mental illness.

Design

Cross sectional data linkage study of the local screening register and patients of the local psychiatric units. Screening uptake rates in all patients, those with a history of multiple detention in hospital, and those with psychosis were compared with the local reference population.

Setting

Women in three inner London boroughs.

Participants

Screening records for 933 psychiatric patients and 44 195 women without mental health prob

SUBMITTER: Werneke U 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2566237 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature