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Adherence to cancer screenings: Is the telephone survey a good method of investigation?

Alessandro Cucchi¹ and Mauro Bergamini¹

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1. Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Section of Hygiene and Occupational Medicine, University of Ferrara, Italy

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Received 01 April 2009 12:08 UTC; Posted 01 April 2009

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Cancer

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• Mass Screening
• Uterine Cervical Neoplasms
• Data Collection
• questionnaire
• interview

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INTRODUCTION – In order to define subjective variables, the methodology on the assessment of the women participation to screening programs to prevent cervical cancer is presented.
MATERIALS AND METHODS – The study was conducted using a structured questionnaire administered by telephone to a sample of women invited to screening, regardless of their real participation to the Pap test. The phone calls were made within 2 days prior to the Pap test session. The questionnaire contained 12 closed questions.
RESULTS – We contacted a total of 1206 women: a total of 1100 women (93.70%) received the invitation letter and answered to the questionnaire.
CONCLUSIONS – The chosen procedure obtained a high percentage of women who agreed to be interviewed.

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Cucchi, Alessandro and Bergamini, Mauro. Adherence to cancer screenings: Is the telephone survey a good method of investigation?. Available from Nature Precedings <http://hdl.handle.net/10101/npre.2009.3016.1> (2009)

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