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Cochrane Consumers and Communication Review Group

Resource Bank part 3: Interventions related to screening

Includes the following:

• Interventions to inform people about screening programs;
• Interventions to increase people’s participation in screening programs,

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COMPLETED REVIEWS

• Antenatal breast examination for promoting breastfeeding (NEW).
• Cancer genetic risk assessment for individuals at risk of familial breast cancer.
• Disclosing to parents newborn carrier status identified by routine blood spot screening.
• Home-based HIV voluntary counseling and testing in developing countries.
• Interventions targeted at women to encourage the uptake of cervical screening.
• Personalised risk communication for informed decision making about taking screening tests .
• Pre-conception and antenatal screening for the fragile site on the X-chromosome.
• Strategies for increasing the participation of women in community breast cancer screening.

UPCOMING REVIEWS: PROTOCOLS

• Influence of comprehensive versus partial information on consumers' screening choices.
• Interventions for improving understanding and minimising the psychological impact of screening.
• Interventions for improving uptake of population-based screening for colorectal cancer using fecal occult blood testing.
• Interventions to promote screening for diabetic retinopathy.
• Rapid tests vs. traditional tests for screening of HIV infections.
• Routine vs. voluntary HIV testing for increasing HIV testing rates.

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