Kurtinaitienė Rūta, Rimienė Jolita, Labanauskaitė Ingrida, Lipunova Nadežda, Smailytė Giedrė
Vilnius University Hospital Santariškių Klinikos, Centre of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Vilnius, Lithuania.
UAB Patologijos diagnostika, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Acta Med Litu. 2016;23(3):180-184. doi: 10.6001/actamedica.v23i3.3383.
High participation rates are an essential component of an effective screening programme and many approaches were introduced as being successful for enhancing compliance to screening guidelines. The aim of this study was to evaluate to which extent a personal invitation by mail increases the rate of attendance in a cervical cancer screening programme in a primary health care centre.
The study was carried out as a pilot project to gain insight into feasibility of applying a well-known compliance increasing measure in Lithuanian population. The study included a sample of women registered at the primary health care centre in Panevėžys who had not participated in the cervical cancer screening programme for six and more years. Personal registered invitation letters to attend the primary health care centre for a Pap smear were sent out to 1789 women by mail.
In total, 2195 women were tested during 2011 at the primary health care centre. 487 (22.2%) of them attended the screening programme after receiving a personal invitation letter. Response rate for attending screening after receiving a personal invitation letter was 27.3%.
Our study demonstrated that personal invitation letters addressed to long-term non-attendees could markedly increase participation in cervical cancer screening in Lithuania.
高参与率是有效筛查项目的重要组成部分，许多方法被认为能成功提高对筛查指南的依从性。本研究的目的是评估通过邮件进行个人邀请在多大程度上能提高初级卫生保健中心宫颈癌筛查项目的参与率。
本研究作为一个试点项目开展，以深入了解在立陶宛人群中应用一种知名的提高依从性措施的可行性。研究样本包括在帕涅韦日斯初级卫生保健中心登记的、六年及以上未参加宫颈癌筛查项目的女性。通过邮件向1789名女性发送了个人挂号邀请信，邀请她们前往初级卫生保健中心进行巴氏涂片检查。
2011年，共有2195名女性在初级卫生保健中心接受了检测。其中487名（22.2%）在收到个人邀请信后参加了筛查项目。收到个人邀请信后参加筛查的回应率为27.3%。
我们的研究表明，给长期未参加者发送个人邀请信可显著提高立陶宛宫颈癌筛查的参与率。
