Table 4 Characteristics of heath care professionals participating in the studies included in the qualitative systematic review of factors influencing participation in personalized breast cancer screening, until March 2022
Article | Professions | Age and gender | Study environment |
|---|---|---|---|
[27] | Physician: 20,6% Management: 24,1% Nurse: 31% Specialists: 17,2% Psychologist: 7% | Age range: NR Women: 83,8% Men: 16% | Primary care University hospital Breast screening programs |
[30] | Radiographer: 32,1% Advanced practitioner radiography: 17,8% General practitioner: 10,7% Consultant radiologist: 10,7% Cancer screening improvement lead: 7,1% Radiographer breast imaging manager, Superintendent radiographer/program manager, Breast screening office manager, Breast care nurse and Admin and data clerk: 17,8% | Age range: NR Women: 89,2% Men: 10,7% | Breast screening program Primary care |
[31] | Physicians’ general practitioners: 40% physicians’ specialists: 30% Genetic counsellors: 30% | Age range: NR Women: 93,3% Men: 6,7% | Primary care University hospital Breast screening programs |
[26] | Breast cancer HCPs (radiology, oncology, radiography, nursing and surgery): 35,2% Senior academics (ethics, epidemiology, statistics and health economics): 35,2% Breast screening program operations/management professions: 29,4% | Age range: NR Women: 64,7% Men: 35,2% | Breast screening program |
[33] | Physician: 69,2% Nurse: 23% Lawyer: 7,6% | Age range: NR Male: 61,5% Female: 38,4% | Breast cancer screening program |
[34] | Family physicians: 72.7% Genetic counsellors: 27,2% | Age range and gender: NR | Academic units Community health centers (Centre Local de Services Communautaires |
[36] | Physician: 50% Nurse: 30% Other: 20% | Age range: NR Female: 65% Male: 35% | Cancer screening programs |
[32] | Gynecologists: 46,6% General physicians: 13,3% Radiologists: 23,3% Genetic counsellors: 6,6% Public health service: 13,3% | Age range: NR Female: 60% Male: 40% | NR |
[35] | Clinician/public health care: 14% Regional manager: 28% National manager: 21,4% Expert/public health care: 35,7% | Age range and gender: NR | Cancer screening programs |