Breast Cancer
Telephone, mail reminders serve as effective mammography motivators
Published in Women's Health Weekly, September 26th, 2002
"Tailored interventions - those developed for one specific recipient based on her particular characteristics - have shown great promise for increasing mammography," said researcher Victoria L. Champion, DNS, of the Indiana University School of Nursing.
Champion's study followed 976 women in St. Louis, Missouri and Indianapolis, Indiana, who were 51 and older and who had not had a mammogram for at least the previous 15 months. They found that women who received telephone and mailed messages about the importance of...
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