REVIEW OF SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS OF CANCER CONTROL INTERVENTIONS

General exclusion criteria:

• not published in English
• published before 1990
• exclusively focused on children or adolescents

Topic specific exclusion criteria:

1. Smoking cessation
   • exclusively focused on prenatal smoking cessation, environmental tobacco smoke, or primary tobacco use
   • exclusively focused on evaluating treatment/therapy interventions (for example: nicotine replacement, hypnosis, aversion therapy, acupuncture)
2. Healthy Diet
   • exclusively focused on vitamin or mineral supplements, prenatal/antenatal diets, weight-reduction diets, diabetic diets, or diets for secondary prevention of heart disease.
3. Mammography
   • exclusively focused on increasing follow-up compliance after an abnormal mammography finding
   • exclusively focused on increasing use of breast self-examination or clinical breast examination
4. Cervical cancer screening
   • exclusively focused on increasing follow-up compliance after an abnormal PAP test result
5. Control of Cancer Pain
   • exclusively focused on control of non-cancer related pain

Inclusion criteria:

• the article refers to itself as a systematic review or meta-analysis (or calls itself a review AND makes reference to databases searched or makes references to number of studies included) in one or more of the specific topic areas or a systematic review or meta-analysis in a more general area of prevention, screening, or supportive care that includes one or more of the topic areas covered by this evidence report
  AND
• assesses the effectiveness and/or efficacy of interventions that promote uptake of cancer control behaviors^* (for example: physician advice; counseling (telephone, emergency room, nurse); media campaigns; peer leaders). Note: for the purpose of title and abstract screening, we will retrieve all systematic reviews of policy-level, workplace, self-help, and incentive-based interventions

REVIEW OF PRIMARY STUDIES OF DISSEMINATION STRATEGIES

General exclusion criteria:

• not published in English
• published before 1980
• narrative review, editorial, letter or opinion paper

Topic specific exclusion criteria:

1. Adult smoking cessation
   • exclusively focused on children or adolescents, prenatal smoking cessation, environmental tobacco smoke, preventing initiation of primary tobacco use or tobacco sales to minors
2. Adult healthy diet
   • exclusively focused on children or adolescents, vitamin supplements, prenatal/antenatal diets
3. Mammography
   • exclusively focused on increasing follow-up compliance after an abnormal mammography finding
   • exclusively focused on increasing use of breast self-examination or clinical breast examination
4. Cervical cancer screening
   • exclusively focused on increasing follow-up compliance after an abnormal PAP test result
5. Control of Cancer Pain
   • exclusively focused on control of non-cancer related pain

Inclusion criteria:

• is a primary study (or a systematic review) involving one or more of the above specified topic areas that evaluates the diffusion or dissemination of a cancer control intervention(s).

Footnotes

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The term “behaviors” is being used in a broad context and encompasses a spectrum of outcomes from change in knowledge and attitudes to influencing practices and behaviors.