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Effect of invitation letter in language of origin on screening attendance : Randomised controlled trial in BreastScreen Norway

Hofvind, Solveig ; Iqbal, Nadia ; Thy, Jonas E. ; Mangerud, Gunhild ; Bhargava, Sameer ; Zackrisson, Sophia LU and Berstad, Paula (2023) In BMJ
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Objective: To explore attendance at organised mammographic screening among immigrant groups that received an invitation letter and information leaflet (invitation) in their language of origin and Norwegian compared with Norwegian only. Design: Randomised controlled trial. Setting: Population based screening programme for breast cancer in Norway (BreastScreen Norway), which invites women aged 50-69 to two-view mammographic screening biennially. Participants: All women invited to BreastScreen Norway in the study period April 2021 to June 2022 whose language of origin was Arabic (women born in Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq, Palestine, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, or Morocco), English (women born in the Philippines), Polish (women born in... (More)

Objective: To explore attendance at organised mammographic screening among immigrant groups that received an invitation letter and information leaflet (invitation) in their language of origin and Norwegian compared with Norwegian only. Design: Randomised controlled trial. Setting: Population based screening programme for breast cancer in Norway (BreastScreen Norway), which invites women aged 50-69 to two-view mammographic screening biennially. Participants: All women invited to BreastScreen Norway in the study period April 2021 to June 2022 whose language of origin was Arabic (women born in Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq, Palestine, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, or Morocco), English (women born in the Philippines), Polish (women born in Poland), Somali (women born in Somalia), or Urdu (women born in Pakistan) (n=11 347). Intervention: The study group received an invitation to screening in their language of origin and in Norwegian, whereas the control group received an invitation in Norwegian only during the study period. Main outcome measure: Attendance at BreastScreen Norway during the study period. Results: Overall attendance was 46.5% (2642/5683) in the study group and 47.4% (2682/5664) in the control group. No statistical differences in attendance were observed after stratification by language of invitation, age at invitation, or years since immigration. Conclusions: No difference in attendance was observed between immigrant women invited to BreastScreen Norway in their language of origin and in Norwegian compared with Norwegian only. Several barriers to cancer screening may exist among immigrants, and translating the invitation is probably only a part of a complex explanation. Trial registration: NCT04672265.ClinicalTrials.gov NCT04672265.

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  author       = {{Hofvind, Solveig and Iqbal, Nadia and Thy, Jonas E. and Mangerud, Gunhild and Bhargava, Sameer and Zackrisson, Sophia and Berstad, Paula}},
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  title        = {{Effect of invitation letter in language of origin on screening attendance : Randomised controlled trial in BreastScreen Norway}},
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