"Effectiveness of the SPYROS DOXIADIS program in the compliance of the patient list of a personal doctor in doing mammography".

Michael Dandoulakis, Adriana Araka, Christiana Milai, Kaliopi Gialedaki, Evangelia Merakou, Virginia Theodosiou

Keywords: prevention, mammography, improving quality of care

Background:

One of the Helath Balance Scorecard's (HBSC)clinical indicators of the health Center of Vari(HCV), is the percentage of women on the list of the personal doctor(PD) who have had a mammogram. In 2018, 1 year after the implementation of the institution of the PD, there was done an effort to measure this ci. In June 2022, the Greek Ministry of Health launched the SPYROS DOXIADIS program, which includes, among other things, the prevention of breast cancer. A relevant SMS message was sent to all women in Greece.

Research questions:

How effective was the Spyros Doxiadis program for mammography at a PD list?

Method:

3 months after the implementation of the SPYROS DOXIADIS program, an attempt was made to communicate with all the women on the list of a P.D. of the HCV . A similar communication effort had been made with the same women 2 years before the implementation of the program, in the context of measuring HBSC c.i. The women were asked about the following:
1. Have you received a message about a mammography YES/NO?
2. Did you have your mammogram done YES/NO?

Results:

From the women who answered our questions, 20% of them received the message of the program. 59% of those who received the message performed mammography and 41% did not performed mammography.
The results of the previous effort 2 years before the program, was as follow. None of the women that were conducted in order to inform them for the necessity of doing mammography had performed mammography.

Conclusions:

The SPYROS DOXIADIS program for the prevention of breast cancer seems to be effective in the list of women of a PDr at VHC. From 0% of women who responded to the proposal of health professionals for mammography at the first effort, this percentage became 56% with the intervention of the program.

Points for discussion:

Prevention of breast cancer,

Ways to increase the mammography procedure

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