Patient Perception of Mammogram Guidelines

University of Massachusetts, Worcester

Status: Completed

Conditions: Breast Cancer; Attitude; Practice Guideline

Treatments: Other: read favorable article prior to answering questions; Other: read unfavorable article prior to answering questions

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01267877

OBGYN13730

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study was to determine attitudes regarding the 2009 USPSTF Guidelines for breast cancer screening for women in their 40's and assess the effect of one of two newspaper articles on their attitudes. The population studied was women seeing their private gynecologist for annual exams in the 39-49 year old age group.

Full description

Subjects completed a baseline questionnaire listing demographics, previous experience with mammograms, and acquaintances with breast cancer. They then were randomly assigned one of two articles (one favorable and one unfavorable) that had been published in the newspaper regarding the USPSTF breast cancer screening guidelines. Their attitudes towards the safety of the guidelines and their willingness to comply with them was then measured.

Enrollment: 247 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 39 to 49 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• women aged 39-49 seeing their gynecologist for routine preventive care

Exclusion criteria

• women not aged 39-49
• women with breast cancer
• women not able to read English

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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247 participants in 2 patient groups

Guideline unfavorable article

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: read unfavorable article prior to answering questions

Guideline favorable article

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: read favorable article prior to answering questions