Shirin Barzanjeh Atri
Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Community Health Nursing Department, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, IranPublications
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Review
Predictive Factors for Participation in Colorectal Cancer Screening: A Systematic Review
Author(s): Shirin Barzanjeh Atri, Mina Hosseinzadeh, Mohamad Asghari Jafarabadi, Mohammad Hasan Sahebihagh and Leila Ebadi*
Background: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the prevalent diseases that can be diagnosed timely using appropriate screening programs. This study aimed to review the predictive factors for participation in colorectal cancer screening. Methods: International databases including PubMed, ISI and Scopus were considered for search of English articles by 30 December, 2018. Thirty-one published articles were finally entered into the study. Keywords were “colorectal cancer”, “colorectal neoplasm”, “predictor”, “screening”, “Fecal Occult Blood Test (FOBT)”, “Fecal Immunochemical Test (FIT)”, “education”, “smoking”, “obesity” or a combination of them in the title/abstracts. Findings: There were 367,248 subjects review.. Read More»