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A tailored within-community specimen collection strategy increased uptake of cervical cancer screening in a cross-sectional study in Ghana

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Title
A tailored within-community specimen collection strategy increased uptake of cervical cancer screening in a cross-sectional study in Ghana
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BMC Public Health, August 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12889-017-4631-y
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Adolf K. Awua, Edwin K. Wiredu, Edwin A. Afari, Ahmad S. Tijani, Gabriel Djanmah, Richard M. K. Adanu

Abstract

The implementation of cervical cancer screening strategies has reported different rates of success in different countries due to population specific factors that limit women's participation. We report observations and the development of a community-based specimen collection strategy which resulted from interactions with women in the study communities, following an initial low response to a hospital based cervical cancer screening strategy. Women were recruited by a house survey and invited to report at a hospital either within a week or after a week for self and health-personnel specimen collections. However, due to the very low response and subsequent interactions with the women of the communities, another strategy was developed that required recruited women report at a central location within their respective communities for specimen collections at times that did not interfere with their daily routines. For specimen collection, of the 156 participants who opted to report after a week at the hospital, 60 (38.5%) reported. Of the 118 participants who opted to report within 1 week at the hospital, 55 (46.6%) reported. Of the 103 participants were invited to report at a specified location within the community, 98 (95.1%) reported. An overall response rate of 60.4% was attained. Almost 89.7% (226 of 253) of the women performed both self and health personnel sample collection. The community-based strategy with self-specimen collection and HPV testing holds great potential for increasing women's participation in cervical cancer screening in Ghana as compared to the hospital based strategy.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 141 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 23 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 7%
Researcher 8 6%
Lecturer 8 6%
Student > Bachelor 7 5%
Other 21 15%
Unknown 64 45%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 33 23%
Nursing and Health Professions 25 18%
Social Sciences 5 4%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 4 3%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 2%
Other 6 4%
Unknown 65 46%
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#15,475,586
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