Loading...

Cognitive ability and personality as predictors of participation in a national colorectal cancer screening programme: the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

BACKGROUND: The English NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme has offered biennial faecal occult blood testing to people aged 60–69 years since 2006, and to those aged 60–74 years since 2010. Analysis of the first 2.6 million screening invitations found that 54% of eligible people took up the invitat...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:J Epidemiol Community Health
Main Authors: Gale, Catharine R, Deary, Ian J, Wardle, Jane, Zaninotto, Paola, Batty, G David
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BMJ Publishing Group 2015
Subjects:
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4453587/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25648994
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech-2014-204888
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!