Improving adherence to regular Pap smear screening among Asian women: A population-based study in Singapore

Health Education and Behavior

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 207-218

  Lee, Jeannette ^a   Seow, Adeline ^a   Ling, Sing Lin ^b   Peng, Lee Hin ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; SINGAPORE; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VAGINA SMEAR;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; SINGAPORE; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 85047696584     PISSN: 10901981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1090198102029002006     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. IARC Working Group on Cervical Cancer Screening: Screening for squamous cervical cancer: The duration of low risk following negative results in cervical cytology tests. Introduction and summary, in Hakama M, Miller AB, Day NE (eds.): Screening for Cancer of the Uterine Cervix. Lyon, France, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 1986, pp. 15-24.
2. Miller AB, Anderson G, Brisson J, Laidlaw J, Le Pitre N, Malcolmson P, et al: Report of a national workshop on screening for cancer of the cervix. Can Med Assoc J 145:1301-1325, 1991.
3. Brown CL: Screening patterns for cervical cancer: How best to reach the unscreened population. Monogr Natl Cancer Inst 21:7-11, 1996.
4. Ronco G, Nereo S, Ponti A: Who has Pap tests? Variables associated with the use of Pap tests in absence of screening programs. Int J Epidemiol 20:349-353, 1991.
5. Katz SJ, Hofer TP: Socioeconomic disparities in preventive care despite universal coverage. Breast and cervical cancer screening in Ontario and the United States. JAMA 272:530-534, 1994.
6. Miller AB: Editorial: Failures of cervical cancer screening. Am J Pub Health 85:761-762, 1995.
7. Singapore Department of Statistics: Yearbook of Statistics. Singapore, Singapore Department of Statistics, 1998.
8. Chia KS, Lee HP, Seow A, Shanmugaratnam K: Trends in Cancer Incidence in Singapore 1968-1992. Singapore, Singapore Cancer Registry, 1996.
9. Emmanuel SC, Tan BY, Chan PSM: A One-Day Morbidity Survey of Outpatients, 1988. Singapore, Ministry of Health, 1989.
10. Lantz P, Weigers ME, House J: Education and income differentials in breast and cervical cancer screening: Policy implications for rural women. Med Care 35:219-236, 1997.
11. Mandelblatt J, Traxler M, Lakin P, Kanetsky P, Kao R, Harlem Study Team: Targeting breast and cervical cancer screening to elderly poor black women: Who will participate? Prev Med 22:20-33, 1993.
12. Luke K: Cervical cancer screening: Meeting the needs of minority ethnic women. Br J Cancer 74:S47-S50, 1996.
13. Seow A, Wong ML, Smith WCS, LeeHP: Beliefs and attitudes as determinants of cervical cancer screening: A community-based study in Singapore. Prev Med 24:134-141, 1995.
14. Suarez L, Lloyd L, Weiss N, Rainbolt T, Pulley L: Effect of social networks on cancer-screening behavior of older Mexican-American women. J Natl Cancer Inst 86:775-779, 1994.
15. Seow A, Lee HP: Prevalence and determinants of cervical cancer screening: A community-based study in Singapore. Ann Acad Med Singapore 23:342-347, 1994.
16. Ho T, Yoong T: Cervical screening in elderly women in Singapore. Singapore Med J 37:61-65, 1996.
17. Seow A, Huang J, Straughan PT: Effects of social support, regular physician and health-related attitudes on cervical cancer screening in an Asian population. Cancer Causes Control 11:223-230, 2000.
18. Mitchell H, Medley G: Adherence to recommendations for early repeat cervical smear tests. British Med J 298:1605-1607, 1989.
19. Crane LA: Social support and adherence behavior among women with abnormal Pap smears. J Cancer Educ 11:164-173, 1996.
20. Marcus AC, Crane LA, Kaplan CP, Reading AE, Savage E, Gunning J, et al: Improving adherence to screening follow-up among women with abnormal Pap smears: Results from a large clinic-based trial of three intervention strategies. Med Care 30:216-230, 1992.
21. Ministry of Health: Singapore Census of Population 1990. Singapore. Ministry of Health, 1991.
22. Grunfeld E: Editorial: Cervical cancer: Screening hard-to-reach groups. Can Med Assoc J 157:543-545, 1997.
23. Nieminen P, Kallio M, Anttila A, Hakama M: Organized vs. spontaneous Pap smear screening for cervical cancer: A case-control study. Int J Cancer 8355-8358, 1999.
24. Heywood A, Sanson-Fisher R, Ring I, Mudge P: Risk prevalence and screening for cancer by general practitioners. Prev Med 23:152-159, 1994.
25. May DS, Kiefe CI, Funkhouser E, Fouad MN: Compliance with mammography guidelines: Physician recommendation and patient adherence. Prev Med 28:386-394, 1999.
26. Ward JE, Redman S, Boyle K, Sanson-Fisher RW: Increasing women's compliance with opportunistic cervical cancer screening: A randomized trial Am J Prev Med 7:285-291, 1991.
27. Maxwell AE, Bastani R, Warda US: Demographic predictors of cancer screening among Filipino and Korean immigrants in the United States. Am J Prev Med 18:62-68, 2000.
28. Hagoel L, Ore L, Neter E, Shifroni G, Rennert G: The gradient in mammography screening behavior: A lifestyle marker. Soc Sci Med 48:1281-1290, 1999.