title: Maintaining mammography adherence through telephone counseling in a church-based trial.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study assessed the effectiveness of telephone counseling in a church-based mammography promotion intervention trial.
  
  
  METHODS
  Thirty churches were randomized to telephone counseling and control conditions; telephone interview data were used in assessing intervention effects on mammography adherence. Separate analyses were conducted for baseline-adherent participants (maintaining adherence) and baseline-nonadherent participants (conversion to adherence).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Year 1 follow-up data indicated that the telephone counseling intervention maintained mammography adherence among baseline-adherent participants and reduced the nonadherence rate from 23% to 16%.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Partnerships between the public health and faith communities are potentially effective conduits to promote maintenance of widely endorsed health behaviors such as regular cancer screening.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles. naihua@mednet.ucla.edu
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Duan
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Fox
authors.forename: K P
authors.initials: KP
authors.lastname: Derose
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Carson
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002977:Clergy; D003376:Counseling / Q000379:methods*; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D015141:Los Angeles; D008327:Mammography / Q000523:psychology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010349:Patient Compliance / Q000523:psychology*; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013689:Telephone; D044465:White People / Q000523:psychology