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Motivating Mothers to Recommend Their 20-Year-Old Daughters Receive Cervical Cancer Screening: A Randomized Study.

ABSTRACT: In Japan, the rate of cervical cancer screening is remarkably low, especially among women in their twenties and thirties, when cervical cancer is now increasing dramatically. The aim of this study was to test whether a modified government reminder for 20-year-old women to engage in cervical cancer screening, acting through maternal education and by asking for a maternal recommendation to the daughter to receive the screening, could increase their participation rate.In two Japanese cities, 20-year-old girls who had not received their first cervical cancer screening before October of fiscal year 2014 were randomized into two study arms. One group of 1,274 received only a personalized daughter-directed reminder leaflet for cervical cancer screening. In the second group of 1,274, the daughters and their mothers received a combination package containing the same reminder leaflet as did the first group, plus an additional informational leaflet for the mother, which requested that the mother recommend that her daughter undergo cervical cancer screening. The subsequent post-reminder screening rates of these two study arms were compared.The cervical cancer screening rate of 20-year-old women whose mothers received the information leaflet was significantly higher than that for women who received only a leaflet for themselves (11% vs 9%, P = 0.0049).An intervention with mothers, by sending them a cervical cancer information leaflet with a request that they recommend that their daughter receive cervical cancer screening, significantly improved their daughters' screening rate.

SUBMITTER: Egawa-Takata T

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5821693 | biostudies-other | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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Motivating Mothers to Recommend Their 20-Year-Old Daughters Receive Cervical Cancer Screening: A Randomized Study.

Egawa-Takata Tomomi T Ueda Yutaka Y Morimoto Akiko A Tanaka Yusuke Y Yagi Asami A Terai Yoshito Y Ohmichi Masahide M Ichimura Tomoyuki T Sumi Toshiyuki T Murata Hiromi H Okada Hidetaka H Nakai Hidekatsu H Mandai Masaki M Matsuzaki Shinya S Kobayashi Eiji E Yoshino Kiyoshi K Kimura Tadashi T Saito Junko J Hori Yumiko Y Morii Eiichi E Nakayama Tomio T Asai-Sato Mikiko M Miyagi Etsuko E Sekine Masayuki M Enomoto Takayuki T Horikoshi Yorihiko Y Takagi Tetsu T Shimura Kentaro K

Journal of epidemiology 20171111 3

<h4>Background</h4>In Japan, the rate of cervical cancer screening is remarkably low, especially among women in their twenties and thirties, when cervical cancer is now increasing dramatically. The aim of this study was to test whether a modified government reminder for 20-year-old women to engage in cervical cancer screening, acting through maternal education and by asking for a maternal recommendation to the daughter to receive the screening, could increase their participation rate.<h4>Methods ...[more]

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Motivating Mothers to Recommend Their 20-Year-Old Daughters Receive Cervical Cancer Screening: A Randomized Study.

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