Abstract
Objective: We report on our "health check-up bra" a product to improve the environment for women who have a health check-up with both men and women present.
Method: The subjects of our survey were 595 women who had a health check-up at our hospital between December 1st, 2008 and February 20th, 2009. We sent a letter to women describing our survey beforehand and distributed the bra free on condition that participants answered questions concerning it.
Results: The size and the cut of the bra were evaluated quite highly but awareness of the bra and desire to purchase it were remarkably low. Some radiographs taken with it on showed a little distortion.
Conclusions: The bra was useful in improving our service to women who have a health check-up. It helps ensure reliability in examinations and it is useful for women during physical check-up. However, we found that having to change clothes took time and interrupted the workflow. It had almost no effect on the interpretation of chest radiographs. However, we are reconsidering the price of the bra due to the low desire to purchase it.
