Acceptability of text messages and knowledge change for cervical cancer screening: a Tanzanian mixed methods study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To investigate the acceptability of a text message intervention and evaluate if text messages could increase knowledge of cervical cancer and screening.

Design

This study was a substudy of a randomised controlled trial that used a mixed methods research design combining a quantitative questionnaire dataset and qualitative interview data. A before and after assessment was made of questionnaire responses. Acceptability was measured on a 6-point Likert scale and knowledge was measured through 16 binary true/false knowledge questions concerning cervical cancer and screening. Qualitative data were coded using a combined inductive-deductive approach.

Setting

Ocean Road Cancer Institute in Dar es Salaam as well as Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center and Mawenzi R

SUBMITTER: Lokke KF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9486230 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature