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BMC Women's Health (2024) 24:22 BMC Women's Health  \n[https://doi.org/10.1186/s12905-023-02867-2](https://doi.org/10.1186/s12905-023-02867-2)  \nRESEARCH Open Access  \nEffectiveness of a culturally tailored text messaging program for promoting cervical cancer screening in accra, Ghana: a quasiexperimental trial  \nAdolphina Addoley Addo-Lartey 1, Harriet Affran Bonful 1*, Ransford Selasi Sefenu 1, Timothy Agandah Abagre 1, Alexander Asamoah 1, Delia Akosua Bandoh 1, Adolf Kofi Awua2, Nii Armah Adu-Aryee3, Florence Dedey3, Richard Mawuena Kofi Adanu4 and Kolawole Stephen Okuyemi5  \nAbstract  \nIntroduction Despite breakthroughs in cervical cancer detection, resource-constrained countries continue to have a disproportionately high incidence and death rate. Mhealth has been identified as an important tool for increasing cervical cancer screening rates in Sub-Saharan Africa. We determined whether sending Ghanaian women culturally tailored one-way mobile phone SMS text messages about cervical cancer would encourage the uptake of the human papillomavirus (HPV) test.  \nMethods From August to November 2016, 88 women aged 18 to 39 living or working in an urban community (Accra, Ghana) participated in a quasi-experimental study. For 8 weeks, 32 SMS messages regarding cervical cancer were developed and sent to the personal phones of intervention arm participants (n = 42) . Women in the control group (n = 46) received SMS texts with general health and lifestyle advice. Fischer’s exact tests were performed to assess cervical cancer screening uptake and associated reasons for non-uptake between the intervention and control groups (p \u003C 0. 05) .  \nResults At the baseline, women differed in terms of ethnicity and wealth. After the intervention, participants’ selfreported risk factors for cervical cancer, such as early menarche, usual source of medical treatment, family history of cancer, smoking, and alcohol history, changed. None of the women in the intervention group sought cervical cancer screening after the intervention, but only one (2 . 2%) of the control arm participants did. Almost all the women (> 95%) agreed that an HPV test was essential and that regular healthcare check-ups could help prevent cervical cancer. Some women believed that avoiding particular foods could help prevent cervical cancer (23 . 8% intervention vs. 58. 7% control, p \u003C 0 . 001) . Time constraints and out-of-pocket expenses were significant barriers to cervical cancer screening. Conclusion: A one-way SMS delivered to urban women did not increase cervical cancer screening attendance. The time spent in screening facilities and the lack of coverage by the National Health Insurance Scheme  \n*Correspondence: Harriet Affran Bonful [habonful@ug.edu.gh](habonful@ug.edu.gh)  \nFull list of author information is available at the end of the article  \n© The Author(s) 2024. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit [http://creativecommons.org/l](http://creativecommons.org/l)icenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver ([http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise","cbCaibpR5YxFMqTX","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibpR5YxFMqTX","pdf",1343331,15,"English","# Abstract\n# Introduction\n# Methods\n# Results\n# Conclusion\n# Keywords","[{\"question\":\"What was the goal of the culturally tailored SMS program in this study?\",\"answer\":\"To determine whether one-way, culturally tailored SMS messages to Ghanaian women would encourage uptake of the HPV test for cervical cancer screening.\"},{\"question\":\"How was the quasi-experimental study conducted?\",\"answer\":\"From August to November 2016, 88 women aged 18 to 39 in Accra participated. Over 8 weeks, intervention participants received 32 SMS messages about cervical cancer, while the control group received SMS with general health and lifestyle advice.\"},{\"question\":\"Did the SMS intervention increase cervical cancer screening attendance?\",\"answer\":\"No. After the intervention, none of the women in the intervention group sought cervical cancer screening, while only one (2.2%) participant in the control group did.\"}]","Effectiveness of a culturally tailored text messaging program for promoting cervical cancer screening in accra, Ghana - Abstract | PDF",1790025647,38]