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Volume 4: No. 4, October 2007

ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Church-Based Breast Cancer Screening Education: Impact of Two Approaches on Latinas Enrolled in Public and Private Health Insurance Plans 

  Promotora Intervention Printed Intervention
Baseline Follow-up Baseline Follow-up
Overall 58.96 60.85 58.07 58.48
Medicaid FFSa 37.40 43.70 43.16 49.29
Medicare FFSa 36.96 42.86 43.57 49.25
HMO-group 54.64 58.77 57.17 48.92
HMO-staff 73.02 71.76 78.09 73.28

Figure. Mammogram rates of Latinas exposed to the Printed Intervention or the Promotora Intervention during baseline (1998–1999) and follow-up (2000–2001), by insurance plan, Tepeyac Project, Colorado, 1999–2005.

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