Should women aged 70-74 be invited to participate in screening mammography? A report on two Australian community juries.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To elicit informed views from Australian women aged 70-74 regarding the acceptability of ceasing to invite women their age to participate in government-funded mammography screening (BreastScreen).

Design

Two community juries held in 2017.

Setting

Greater Sydney, a metropolis of 4.5 million people in New South Wales, Australia.

Participants

34 women aged 70-74 with no personal history of breast cancer, recruited by random digit dialling and previously randomly recruited list-based samples.

Main outcomes and measures

Jury verdict and rationale in response to structured questions. We transcribed audio-recorded jury proceedings and identified central reasons for the jury's decision.

Results

The women's average age was 71.5 years. Participant

SUBMITTER: Degeling C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6009633 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature