Impact of a multimedia breast cancer education intervention on use of mammography by low-income Latinas

Abstract

Background: This paper describes the results of a study of a multimedia breast cancer educational intervention for low-education, low-income Latinas.

Methods: Study participants were first exposed to an interactive, multimedia breast cancer educational intervention and then interviewed four months later to ascertain their mammography status.

Results: About 40% of the women who had either obtained or scheduled mammography since the intervention attributed their decision to the intervention.

Conclusion: Women who had previously been screened and who understood that mammography was used as a breast cancer screening method were more likely to have scheduled or obtained mammography than other women.