Effect of telephone-based health education intervention models on cervical cancer screening compliance: A protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND: Screening is an effective strategy for preventing and controlling the cervical cancer. Unfortunately, women are often less likely to adhere to cervical cancer screening procedures. Related research shows that the telephone-based health education model can improve the compliance of screening. At present, however, this practice is lack of persuasion. Therefore, this study makes a systematic meta-analysis on whether the telephone-based health education model can improve the compliance of screening by women. METHODS: Retrievals will be made on PubMed, Web of Science, the Cochrane Library, EMBASE, and some clinical trial registration websites, and information on related randomized controlled trials (RCTs) will collected. After 2 researchers independently screen the literatures, they will extract the data and evaluate the bias risk contained in the collected studies, before meta-analysis is carried out with RevMan 5.3 software. RESULTS: The available evidence will be systematically reviewed in terms of compliance with cervical cancer screening. CONCLUSION: The findings of this study will produce comprehensive evidence to identify whether the telephone-based health education model can improve women's compliance with cervical cancer screening.