Recruitment activities and sociodemographic factors that predict attendance at a mammographic screening program

S.F. Hurley, R.M. Huggins, D.J. Jolley and D. Reading

American Journal of Public Health, 1994, vol. 84, issue 10, 1655-1658

Abstract: A random sample of 2266 women aged 50 to 69 years was used to investigate factors that predict attendance at a free. Australian mammographic screening program. The most important predictor was receipt of a personal invitation letter. A letter that included an appointment time increased attendance 132- fold initially and decreased to 20 times baseline after 14 days. A letter that did not include an appointment time increased attendance 12-fold, and a second letter to nonattenders increased attendance approximately 13-fold. Attendance declined with increasing distance from the program and with increases in the percentage of non-English speaking women in a neighborhood, but was higher in areas of higher socioeconomic status.

Date: 1994
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