PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To assess Papanicolaou (Pap) test screening behaviors of Taiwanese women, to explore factors affecting stages of change, and to determine whether constructs from the transtheoretical model are applicable to Taiwanese women with regard to Pap screening. DESIGN Descriptive, cross-sectional. SETTING A hospital in Taiwan. SAMPLE 222 female hospital workers. METHODS Data w...

OBJECTIVE This retrospective study of all women who accessed the 2006 Manitoba Pap Test Week clinics was designed to determine factors associated with inadequate cervical cancer screening and changes in cervical cancer screening behavior. METHODS Data were acquired using the CervixCheck Manitoba registry and an ancillary database of demographic information collected from clinic attendees. R...

BACKGROUND The rate of uptake of the Papanicolaou (Pap) smear is generally low. Its causal relationship with human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA allows HPV DNA self-sampling to be used as an alternative screening tool for cervical cancer. OBJECTIVES This study explored the acceptability of HPV DNA self-sampling and its impact on the rate of compliance with cervical cancer screening. METHODS A cr...

OBJECTIVES We investigated attitudes about and acceptance of anal Papanicolaou (Pap) screening among men who have sex with men (MSM). METHODS Free anal Pap screening (cytology) was offered to 1742 MSM in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study, who reported history of, attitudes about, and experience with screening. We explored predictors of declining screening with multivariate logistic regression...

Cytological screening for cervical cancer (the Pap smear), the first attempt at mass screening for a human malignancy, is often presented as a non-problematic demonstration of the feasibility of such screening. Screening for this tumor became a model for screening for other malignancies: breast, colon and prostate. My text follows the early history of the Pap smear and the conditions that led t...

BACKGROUND The objective of the EUROCHIP project in Estonia was to describe the organized cervical cancer screening program started in 2006 (after pilot studies in 2003-2005), to compare its performance with opportunistic screening, and to define priorities for improvement of the program. METHODS Population data was retrieved from Statistics Estonia, data about performed Pap-smear tests withi...

OBJECTIVE To determine the baseline information about the knowledge of cervical cancer and explore attitude and practice of Pap smear screening among staff nurses. METHODS A pretested structured self administered questionnaire based survey was done on 205 staff nurses working in Rural Institute of Medical Sciences & Research, Saifai, Etawah, containing mostly recognition and some recall type ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the sociodemographic factors associated with cervical cancer screening and follow-up of abnormal results. DESIGN Population cohort study. SETTING Ontario. PARTICIPANTS Women between the ages of 18 and 70 years who were eligible for Papanicolaou testing. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Rates of cervical cancer screening and follow-up of abnormal and inadequate Pap test resul...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA testing (versus Papanicolaou (Pap)-based screening) for cervical cancer screening in Nicaragua. DESIGN A previously developed Monte Carlo simulation model of the natural history of HPV infection and cervical cancer was calibrated to epidemiological data from Nicaragua. Cost data inputs were derived using a micro-c...

Introduction: Cervical cancer is a huge emotional and financial burden on society. To curb the disease, there is a need to develop a screening test that has good sensitivity and specificity. The present study is aimed to compare the effectiveness of the Pap smear, Visual Inspection with Acetic Acid (VIA) for mass screening of premalignant and malignant lesions of the cervix. Aims and objectives...