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CDC COMMUNITY GUIDE: Cancer Prevention & Control, Client-Oriented Screening Interventions: Small Media

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An Evidence-Based Practice

Description

Small media include videos and printed materials such as letters, brochures, and newsletters. These materials can be used to inform and motivate people to be screened for cancer. They can provide information tailored to specific individuals or targeted to general audiences.

The Community Preventive Services Task Force recommends interventions that use small media based on strong evidence of their effectiveness in increasing:
• Colorectal cancer screening by fecal occult blood test (FOBT)

Results / Accomplishments

Results from the Systematic Reviews:
Colorectal Cancer:
Seven studies (including 9 study arms) qualified for the systematic review (one included a tailored intervention).
• Proportion of study participants completing screening by FOBT: median increase of 12.7 percentage points (8 study arms)
• None of the qualifying studies addressed flexible sigmoidoscopy, colonoscopy, or double contrast barium enema screening, so the findings may not apply to these.
• Reviewed studies were conducted among different racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups.

About this Promising Practice

Primary Contact
The Community Guide
1600 Clifton Rd, NE
MS E69
Atlanta, GA 30329
(404) 498-1827
communityguide@cdc.gov
https://www.thecommunityguide.org/
Topics
Health / Cancer
Source
Community Guide Branch Epidemiology and Analysis Program Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Location
USA
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Target Audience
Adults
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