Adherence to Mammography and Pap Screening Guidelines Among Medically Underserved Women: the Role of Family Structures and Network-Level Behaviors.

ABSTRACT: Poor adherence to screening recommendations is an important contributing factor to disparities in breast and cervical cancer outcomes among women in the USA. Screening behaviors are multifactorial, but there has been limited focus on how family network beliefs and behaviors influence individual's likelihood to complete screening. This research aims to fill this gap by evaluating the role of family network composition and screening behaviors on women's likelihood to adhere to mammogram and pap screening recommendations. We used an ego network approach to analyze data from 137 families and their networks. Primary outcomes were whether an individual had received a mammogram in the past year and whether she had received a pap screening in the past 3 years. Network-level predictors included net

SUBMITTER: Allen CG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8076331 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature