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• Brevik, Thea Beate; Laake, Petter & Bjørkly, Stål (2020). Effect of culturally tailored education on attendance at mammography and Papanicolaou test. Health Services Research.  ISSN 0017-9124.  s 1- 12 . doi: 10.1111/1475-6773.13271 Vis sammendrag

  Objectives: To determine the effectiveness of culturally tailored education on attendance at breast and cervical cancer screening among ethnic minority women. Data Sources: Systematic database searches in Ovid MEDLINE, ProQuest, PubMed, PsycINFO, and Cochrane CENTRAL. Study Design: Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of culturally tailored educational interventions to ethnic minority women in Western countries were investigated for a meta-analysis. RCTs that assessed attendance at mammography or the Papanicolaou test (Pap test) were eligible for inclusion. Data Collection Methods: Study characteristics and results were extracted separately. Independent raters assessed risk of bias by using Cochrane Collaboration's tool. Principal Findings: Seven RCTs (n = 4246) were included in the meta-analysis of mammography attendance, and four RCTs (n = 1750) were included in the meta-analysis of Pap test attendance. The effect of culturally tailored educational interventions on attendance at mammography was an increase of 18 percent (RR = 1.18, 95% CI, 1.09- 1.28, P < .001), with low heterogeneity (I 2 = 30.0, P = .237), and a 54 percent increase at the Pap test (RR = 1.54, 95% CI, 1.14-2.09, P = .005), with substantial heterogeneity (I 2 = 75.9%, P = .001). Conclusions: Interpreted within the limitations set by the low number of studies and substantial heterogeneity for the Pap test, findings from the current meta-analyses indicate that culturally tailored educational interventions may increase attendance of ethnic minority women at breast and cervical cancer screenings. There is a need for more studies, in particular RCTs conducted outside the United States, to determine if such findings are similar in other countries. KEYWORDS: ethnic groups, health education, mammography, meta-analysis, Papanicolaou test.

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