title: Impact of a multimedia breast cancer education intervention on use of mammography by low-income Latinas.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  This paper describes the results of a study of a multimedia breast cancer educational intervention for low-education, low-income Latinas.
  
  
  METHODS
  Study participants were first exposed to an interactive, multimedia breast cancer educational intervention and then interviewed four months later to ascertain their mammography status.
  
  
  RESULTS
  About 40% of the women who had either obtained or scheduled mammography since the intervention attributed their decision to the intervention.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Women who had previously been screened and who understood that mammography was used as a breast cancer screening method were more likely to have scheduled or obtained mammography than other women.
authors.affiliation: Multimedia Breast Cancer Project, Mountain View, California, USA. avaldez@aol.com
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Valdez
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Banerjee
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fernandez
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ackerson
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000208:ethnology / Q000517:prevention & control; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D008327:Mammography / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008875:Middle Aged; D019212:Multimedia; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care / Q000208:ethnology*; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D011203:Poverty; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors