Trial reportJournal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education2011
A randomized controlled calendar mail-out to increase cancer screening among urban American Indian and Alaska Native patients.
Trial report in Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 21 citations in OpenAlex.
- Do health education initiatives assist socioeconomically disadvantaged populations? A systematic review and meta-analyses.BMC public health · 2023Pooled it
- Native American Women's Willingness to Screen for Both Cervical and Colorectal Cancer at Home.Cancer medicine · 2026Article
- Characteristics of interventions aimed at reducing inequalities along the cancer continuum: A scoping review.International journal of cancer · 2025Article
- American Indian and Alaska Native recruitment strategies for health-related randomized controlled trials: A scoping review.PloS one · 2024Article
- Mobile Web App Intervention to Promote Breast Cancer Screening Among American Indian Women in the Northern Plains: Feasibility and Efficacy Study.JMIR formative research · 2023Article
- Use of a Discharge Educational Strategy Versus Standard Discharge Care on Reduction of Vascular Risk in Patients with Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attack.Current cardiology reports · 2020Review
- In search of Pan-American indigenous health and harmony.Globalization and health · 2019Review
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- Detection of Colorectal Neoplasia in a Cohort Before and After the Change of Fecal Occult Blood Test in a French Colorectal Cancer Screening Program.The American journal of gastroenterology · 2018Article
- The Effect of Educational Intervention Based on Health Belief Model and Social Support on the Rate of Participation of Individuals in Performing Fecal Occult Blood Test for Colorectal Cancer ScreeningAsian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2018Article
- Cancer Journey for American Indians and Alaska Natives in the Pacific Northwest .Oncology nursing forum · 2016Article
- The influence of health disparities on targeting cancer prevention efforts.American journal of preventive medicine · 2014Article
- Public awareness of colorectal cancer screening: knowledge, attitudes, and interventions for increasing screening uptake.ISRN oncology · 2014Review
- Formative Evaluation to Assess Communication Technology Access and Health Communication Preferences of Alaska Native People.International journal of indigenous healthArticle
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Abstract
This study seeks to ascertain whether a culturally tailored art calendar could improve participation in cancer screening activities. We conducted a randomized, controlled calendar mail-out in which a Native art calendar was sent by first class mail to 5,633 patients seen at an urban American Indian clinic during the prior 2 years. Using random assignment, half of the patients were mailed a "message" calendar with screening information and reminders on breast, colorectal, lung, and prostate cancer; the other half received a calendar without messages. The receipt of cancer screening services was ascertained through chart abstraction in the following 15 months. In total, 5,363 observations (health messages n = 2,695; no messages n = 2,668) were analyzed. The calendar with health messages did not result in increased receipt of any cancer-related prevention outcome compared to the calendar without health messages. We solicited clinic input to create a culturally appropriate visual intervention to increase cancer screening in a vulnerable, underserved urban population. Our results suggest that printed materials with health messages are likely too weak an intervention to produce the desired behavioral outcomes in cancer screening.
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