What are the Psychological Factors Influencing Attendance, Non-Attendance and Re-Attendance at a Breast Screening Centre? | Zendy

Lesley Fallowfield | Zendy; A. Rodway | Zendy; M Baum | Zendy

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What are the Psychological Factors Influencing Attendance, Non-Attendance and Re-Attendance at a Breast Screening Centre?

Author(s) -

Lesley Fallowfield,

A. Rodway,

M Baum

Publication year - 1990

Publication title -

journal of the royal society of medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.38

H-Index - 81

eISSN - 1758-1095

pISSN - 0141-0768

DOI - 10.1177/014107689008300905

Subject(s) - attendance , breast screening , breast cancer screening , breast cancer , medicine , family medicine , mammography , clinical psychology , gynecology , psychology , cancer , economics , economic growth

We describe some preliminary findings from a pilot study using three recently developed questionnaires which assessed items such as the health beliefs, knowledge about cancer and attitudes to breast cancer screening in 242 women invited to attend for mammographic screening in South East London. We suggest that these questionnaires should be used in all regional centres both to monitor psychological variables and to identify local problems within the service which may be influencing the up-take of invitations to come for screening.

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