Effect of an Intervention in General Practice to Increase the Participation of Immigrants in Cervical Cancer Screening: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Immigrant women have lower participation in cervical cancer screening (CCS) programs. At the same time, some groups of immigrants have higher prevalence of cervical cancer. Targeted interventions are therefore necessary.

Objective

To determine whether an intervention among general practitioners (GPs) could influence immigrant women's participation in the Norwegian CCS program.

Design, setting, and participants

Cluster-randomized clinical trial using the 20 subdistricts of the Bergen, Norway, municipality as clusters. The clusters were matched in 10 pairs according to the number of immigrant women living in them and randomized thereafter. The intervention was implemented between January and June 2017 among urban, primary care, general practices in Bergen. Fo

SUBMITTER: Moen KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7113727 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature