Motivating Mothers to Recommend Their 20-Year-Old Daughters Receive Cervical Cancer Screening: A Randomized Study

Background: In Japan, the rate of cervical cancer screening is remarkably low, especially among women in their twenties and thirties, when cervical cancer is now increasing dramatically. The aim of this study was to test whether a modified government reminder for 20-year-old women to engage in cervi...

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Main Authors: Tomomi Egawa-Takata, Yutaka Ueda, Akiko Morimoto, Yusuke Tanaka, Asami Yagi, Yoshito Terai, Masahide Ohmichi, Tomoyuki Ichimura, Toshiyuki Sumi, Hiromi Murata, Hidetaka Okada, Hidekatsu Nakai, Masaki Mandai, Shinya Matsuzaki, Eiji Kobayashi, Kiyoshi Yoshino, Tadashi Kimura, Junko Saito, Yumiko Hori, Eiichi Morii, Tomio Nakayama, Mikiko Asai-Sato, Etsuko Miyagi, Masayuki Sekine, Takayuki Enomoto, Yorihiko Horikoshi, Tetsu Takagi, Kentaro Shimura
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Japan Epidemiological Association 2018-03-01
Series:Journal of Epidemiology
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Online Access:https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jea/28/3/28_JE20160155/_pdf