Effect of Fee on Cervical Cancer Screening Attendance--ScreenFee, a Swedish Population-Based Randomised Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Attendance in the cervical cancer screening programme is one of the most important factors to lower the risk of contracting the disease. Attendance rates are often low in areas with low socioeconomic status. Charging a fee for screening might possibly decrease attendance in this population. Screening programme coverage is low in low socio-economic status areas in Gothenburg, Sweden, but has increased slightly after multiple interventions in recent years. For many years, women in the region have paid a fee for screening. We studied the effect of abolishing this fee in a trial emanating from the regular cervical cancer screening programme.

Method

Individually randomised controlled trial. All 3 124 women in three low-resource areas in Gothenburg, due for screening du

SUBMITTER: Alfonzo E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4795635 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature