caa a22 4500 477129358 CHVBK 20180405111700.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19970901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1018439623384 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1018439623384 Factors determining acceptability of mammography in an Asian population: a study among women in Singapore [Elektronische Daten] [A. Seow, P. Straughan, E.-H. Ng, S. Emmanuel, C.-H. Tan, H.-P. Lee] Population-based mammographic screening has been shown to beeffective in reducing breast cancer mortality in the West. In Singapore, aproject carried out to determine the effectiveness of implementing such aprogram locally invited 28,000 women between the ages of 50 and 64 years formammography. The current study, which was part of this larger project, wasintended to determine factors contributing to the acceptance of mammographicscreening among women in Singapore. A questionnaire was administeredin-person to 300 attenders and 260 non-attenders. The respondents werecompared with respect to basic demographic characteristics, previouspreventive behavior, informal social support, and attitudes towards earlydetection. We found that screening attenders were more likely to be Chinesethan Malays (14 percent of the population) or Indians (seven percent), and tobe working outside the home (adjusted odds ratio [OR]) = 4.5, 95 percentconfidence interval [CI] = 2.6-7.9). A grea ter proportion of attenders had ahistory of other screening tests such as the Pap smear (OR = 4.7, CI =2.6-8.7 for recent smear compared with never having had a smear). They werealso more likely to indicate a sense of personal susceptibility to cancer,but did not differ from non-attenders in terms of believing in cancerprevention, or of preferring to be told if they did have cancer. Thestrongest independent predictor of attendance, however, was encouragement byher spouse or family member. For women in this population to be persuadedeffectively to participate in mammographic screening, it would be importantto convince family members of the benefits of the test. At the same time,education targeted specifically at women of the appropriate age group shouldaddress the issue of the personal relevance of screening for breastcancer. Chapman and Hall, 1997 Breast cancer nationallicence mammography nationallicence mammography nationallicence screening acceptability nationallicence Singapore nationallicence women nationallicence Seow A. National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore aut Straughan P. National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore aut Ng E.-H Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore aut Emmanuel S. Ministry of Health, Singapore, Singapore aut Tan C.-H Ministry of Health, Singapore, Singapore aut Lee H.-P National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore aut Cancer Causes & Control Kluwer Academic Publishers 8/5(1997-09-01), 771-779 0957-5243 8:5<771 1997 8 10552 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018439623384 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018439623384 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Seow A. National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Straughan P. National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ng E.-H Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Emmanuel S. Ministry of Health, Singapore, Singapore aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Tan C.-H Ministry of Health, Singapore, Singapore aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lee H.-P National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Cancer Causes & Control Kluwer Academic Publishers 8/5(1997-09-01), 771-779 0957-5243 8:5<771 1997 8 10552 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer