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Author (year) | Cancer focus | Data collection | Participants | Sample (N) | Special event description | Follow-up period | Results | Cost |
Dolin & Butterfield [26] | Breast and cervical | Post-test only | White women from a mid-eastern U.S. city | 67 | Type: Health fair | At event | Screening: | Not reported |
Event components: | Â | Scheduled breast and cervical screening appointment: | ||||||
• Group Education and one-on-one education (treatment and control) |  | Treatment: 41% | ||||||
Control: 25% | ||||||||
• Small media (breast self-examination educational information) (treatment) |  | p-value <.015 | ||||||
Referral to screenings | ||||||||
Community Guide strategies:1 GE, 1on1, SM, RSB | ||||||||
Englisbe et al. [34] | Breast | Post-event only | Low income, minority women in targeted zip codes in Albany, NY, 63% no prior mammogram | 50 | Type: Special day | At event | Screening: | $2,500 |
Event components: | Â | Mammography: 44 (88%) | ||||||
• Transportation to mammography appointments on Mother’s Day and Valentine’s Day | ||||||||
• Educational materials (e.g. totes and t-shirts with health messages) | ||||||||
Provide reduced cost mammograms | ||||||||
Community Guide strategies: RSB, ROPC, SM | ||||||||
Fournier et al. [27] | Breast & cervical | Post-event only | Residents of Big Pine Key and Key West, Florida | 1279 over 2 yrs | Type: Health fair (offered twice) | At event | Screening: | $7,000 |
Event Components: | Â | Mammography (1997): | ||||||
• Free clinical exams: breast and cervical (1996 & 1997) |  | Total: 34 (4.8%) | ||||||
• Free cancer screening: mammograms (1997) |  | Clinical Exams (1996–1997): | ||||||
Clinical Breast Exams: | ||||||||
133 (10.4%) | ||||||||
Patient education | Clinical Female Pelvic Exam (1996–1997): 151 (8.5%) | |||||||
Community Guide strategies: 1 on 1, ROPC RSB | ||||||||
Resnick [28] | Breast, cervical & colorectal | Post-event only | Residents over 90 years of age (mostly female) living in a continuing-care retirement community (location not specified) | 51 | Type: Health fair | At event | Screening: | Not reported |
Event components: | Â | Pap Tests: 2 (3.9%) | ||||||
• Clinical exams |  | Returned FOBT cards: 15 (29.4%) | ||||||
• Cancer screening; breast exams, pap tests, and stools for occult blood test | Clinical Exams: | |||||||
One-on-one education sessions to discuss screening options and chose the relevant screenings | Â | Clinical Breast Exams: 8 (15.7%) | ||||||
Community Guide strategies: ROPC, 1 on 1, RSB | ||||||||
Gellert et al. [33] | Breast & colorectal | Pre-event and post-event | Native Hawaiians in Molokai, Hawaii | 73 | Type: Cultural festival | Weekly up to 6 mo | Screening : | Not reported |
Event Components: | Colorectal Cancer (FOBT) (28 men ≥ 50 years old): | |||||||
• Cancer 101 group session |  | Pre-event: 11 (39%) | ||||||
• One-on-one education |  | Follow-up: 21 (75%) | ||||||
• Screening: breast exams and colorectal cancers kits |  | p-value= .002 | ||||||
• Follow-up letter at 1 month and up to 6 months phone call to assist with obtaining insurance, scheduling appts., and transportation |  | Colorectal Cancer (FOBT) (25 women ≥ 50 years old): | ||||||
Pre-event: 9 (36%) | ||||||||
Community Guide strategies: ROPC, 1 on1, GE, RSB | Follow-up: 19 (76%) | |||||||
p-value=.002 | ||||||||
Mammography (38 women ≥ 40 years old): | ||||||||
Pre-event: 25 (66%) | ||||||||
Follow-up: 32 (84%) | ||||||||
p-value=.02 | ||||||||
Clinical Exams: | ||||||||
Clinical Breast Exam: | ||||||||
Pre-test: 25 (66%) | ||||||||
Post-test: 38 (100%) | ||||||||
p-value<.001 | ||||||||
Byrne and Robles-Rodriguez [31] | Breast | Post-event only | Underserved, minority women aged 18–70 in Camden County, New Jersey | 568 | Type: Party (offered 25 times) | 2 days | Screening and Clinical Exams: | Not reported |
Event Components: | After the event | Mammograms and clinical breast exams:2 301 | ||||||
• Group education | ||||||||
Referrals for screening | ||||||||
Community Guide strategies: GE, RSB | ||||||||
Cueva et al. [35] | Colorectal | Post-event only | Alaska Natives and American Indians in Alaska | 172 | Type: Play | At event | Other Outcomes: | Not reported |
Event Components: | Â | Increased intention to get screened: 37/124 (30% ) | ||||||
• Group education | ||||||||
• Theatre script for all participants (readers and listeners) | ||||||||
Community Guide strategies: GE,SM | ||||||||
Elmunzer et al. [29] | Colorectal | Post-event only | Uninsured, mostly minority patients older than 50 years who had not undergone CRC screening in the past 10 years in Miami, FL | 52 | Type: Health fair | At event | Screening: | $6,531 |
Event Components: | Â | Flexible Sigmoidoscopy: 52 (100% of attendees; 61.8% of scheduled) | ||||||
Sigmoidoscopy Screening | ||||||||
Community Guide strategies: RSB, ROPC | ||||||||
Multi-component articles | ||||||||
Goldsmith and Sisneros [32] | Breast and cervical | Pre-event and post-event | Migrant and seasonal low income, mostly Hispanic female farmworkers, aged 18+, in California’s Central Valley | 1732 | Type: Party | 45 Days | Screening: | Not reported |
Event Components: | Â | Pap Tests: 183 (10.6%) | ||||||
Mammograms: 29 (1.7%) | ||||||||
Clinical Breast Exams: 105 (6.1%) | ||||||||
• Group education | ||||||||
• Outreach activities (transportation, criteria for free screening and | ||||||||
• Scheduling screening appointments) | ||||||||
• Screening referrals (vouchers provided) | ||||||||
Community Guide strategies: GE, 1 on1, | ||||||||
RSB | ||||||||
Wu et al. [30] | Colorectal | Pre-event and post-event | Mostly uninsured Asian Americans, 50-years or older, at high-risk of colorectal cancer in Michigan | 400 | Type: Health fair | 6-12 mo | Screening: | Not reported |
Event Components: | Â | FOBT: 70 (45%) | ||||||
• Group seminars were on early detection of colorectal cancer |  | Colonoscopy: 45 (29%) | ||||||
Flexible Sigmoidoscopy: 2 (1%) | ||||||||
• Provision of low cost FOBT kits |  | FOBT and Flexible Sigmoidoscopy: 4 (2%) | ||||||
Other outcomes: | ||||||||
• Educational brochures were distributed in all relevant Asian languages | Intention to get screened: 175 (57.6%) | |||||||
Community Guide strategies: GE, RSB |