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dc.contributor.authorChambers, Julieen_UK
dc.contributor.authorO'Carroll, Ronanen_UK
dc.contributor.authorCook, Alanen_UK
dc.contributor.authorCavanagh, Julieen_UK
dc.contributor.authorArchibald, Debbieen_UK
dc.contributor.authorMillar, Rosemaryen_UK
dc.date.accessioned2014-10-07T23:48:19Z-
dc.date.available2014-10-07T23:48:19Z-
dc.date.issued2014-08en_UK
dc.identifier.other824en_UK
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/21114-
dc.description.abstractBACKGROUND Breast cancer accounts for almost 30% of all cancers and is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in women in Scotland. Screening is key to early detection. The Scottish Breast Screening Programme is a nationwide, free at point of delivery screening service, to which all women aged between 50 and 70 years are invited to attend every 3 years. Currently over three-quarters of invited women regularly attend screening. However, women from more deprived areas are much less likely to attend: for example in the 3 years from 2010-2012 only 63% of women in the most deprived area attended the East of Scotland Breast Screening programme versus 81% in the least deprived. Research has suggested that reminders (telephone or letter) and brief, personalised interventions addressing barriers to attendance may be helpful in increasing uptake in low-income women. METHODS/DESIGN We will employ a brief telephone reminder and support intervention, whose purpose is to elicit and address any mistaken beliefs women have about breast screening, with the aim that the perceived benefits of screening come to outweigh any perceived barriers for individuals. We will test whether this intervention, plus a simple anticipated regret manipulation, will lead to an increase in the uptake of breast cancer screening amongst low-income women who have failed to attend a first appointment, in a randomised controlled trial with 600 women. Participants will be randomly allocated to one of four treatment arms i.e. 1) Letter reminder (i.e. Treatment as usual: CONTROL); 2) Telephone reminder (TEL), 3) Telephone reminder plus telephone support (TEL-SUPP) and 4) Telephone reminder plus support plus AR (TEL-SUPP-AR). The primary outcome will be attendance at breast screening within 3 months of the reminder letter. DISCUSSION If this simple telephone support intervention (with or without AR intervention) leads to a significant increase in breast screening attendance, this would represent a rare example of a theoretically-driven, relatively simple psychological intervention that could result in earlier detection of breast cancer amongst an under-served group of lower socio-economic women. TRIAL REGISTRATION Current Controlled trials: ISRCTN06039270. Registered 16th January 2014.en_UK
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherBioMed Centralen_UK
dc.relationChambers J, O'Carroll R, Cook A, Cavanagh J, Archibald D & Millar R (2014) A pilot telephone intervention to increase uptake of breast cancer screening in socially deprived areas in Scotland (TELBRECS): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. BMC Public Health, 14 (1), Art. No.: 824. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-824en_UK
dc.rights© 2014 Chambers et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.en_UK
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_UK
dc.subjectBreast canceren_UK
dc.subjectScreeningen_UK
dc.subjectAnticipated regreten_UK
dc.subjectTelephone reminderen_UK
dc.subjectBarriers to breast screeningen_UK
dc.titleA pilot telephone intervention to increase uptake of breast cancer screening in socially deprived areas in Scotland (TELBRECS): study protocol for a randomised controlled trialen_UK
dc.typeJournal Articleen_UK
dc.identifier.doi10.1186/1471-2458-14-824en_UK
dc.identifier.pmid25106506en_UK
dc.citation.jtitleBMC Public Healthen_UK
dc.citation.issn1471-2458en_UK
dc.citation.volume14en_UK
dc.citation.issue1en_UK
dc.citation.publicationstatusPublisheden_UK
dc.citation.peerreviewedRefereeden_UK
dc.type.statusVoR - Version of Recorden_UK
dc.author.emailronan.ocarroll@stir.ac.uken_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationPsychologyen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationPsychologyen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationNinewells Hospital & Medical Schoolen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationNHS Taysideen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationNinewells Hospital & Medical Schoolen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationNinewells Hospital & Medical Schoolen_UK
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000340816900001en_UK
dc.identifier.scopusid2-s2.0-84906930789en_UK
dc.identifier.wtid619407en_UK
dc.contributor.orcid0000-0002-5130-291Xen_UK
dcterms.dateAccepted2014-08-31en_UK
dc.date.filedepositdate2014-09-26en_UK
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local.rioxx.authorChambers, Julie|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorO'Carroll, Ronan|0000-0002-5130-291Xen_UK
local.rioxx.authorCook, Alan|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorCavanagh, Julie|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorArchibald, Debbie|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorMillar, Rosemary|en_UK
local.rioxx.projectInternal Project|University of Stirling|https://isni.org/isni/0000000122484331en_UK
local.rioxx.freetoreaddate2014-09-26en_UK
local.rioxx.licencehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/|2014-09-26|en_UK
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