Increasing Cervical Cancer Screening Coverage: A Randomised, Community-Based Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Opportunistic cervical cancer screening can lead to suboptimal screening coverage. Coverage could be increased after a personalised invitation to the target population. We present a community randomized intervention study with three strategies aiming to increase screening coverage.

Methods

The CRICERVA study is a community-based clinical trial to improve coverage of population-based screening in the Cerdanyola SAP area in Barcelona.A total of 32,858 women residing in the study area, aged 30 to 70 years were evaluated. A total of 15,965 women were identified as having no registration of a cervical cytology in the last 3.5 years within the Public Health data base system. Eligible women were assigned to one of four community randomized intervention groups (IGs): (1)

SUBMITTER: Acera A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5261609 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature