This study examined the effectiveness of tailored telephone counseling designed to increase screening mammography among 354 women residing in south Los Angeles, a socioeconomically challenged inner-city area. We found that more women (36.8%) reported having screening mammograms in the intervention group than in the control group (29.0%) based on a six-month follow-up interview. Further analysis [...]

A random-digit-dialing, community-based survey identified 430 respondents who qualified to participate in the study. Table 1 shows the demographic characteristics of the study sample. The mean age was 51.9 years. Overall, the racial and ethnic breakdown consisted of 38.1% African-American, 44.9% Latina and 17.0% of other racial and ethnic groups. A majority (60.9%) of the [...]

Tailored Telephone Counseling Health messages can be generic, targeted to subsets of the population or tailored for individual recipients. Tailored messages incorporate sociocul-tural and psychological factors that have been shown to increase compliance with health behavioral objectives and they have been examined in a variety of ways. Respondents who completed the community-based survey and agreed [...]

The study was conducted over a four-year period between 1996 and 2000. Participants were recruited using Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI) software and the random-digit-dialing (RDD) method during 1997 and 1998. An independent firm conducted the community-based RDD survey using methods previously described. Study eligibility criteria included living in the King/Drew Medical Center service area, [...]

INTRODUCTION The 2002 Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer states that overall cancer incidence rates stabilized, while overall cancer mortality rates decreased for both men and women between 1973 and 1999. The report utilized the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Program and other databases to calculate the trends. The report [...]