ArticleCurrent oncology (Toronto, Ont.)2018
Self-collection for under-screened women in a National Cervical Screening Program: pilot study.
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- Implementing HPV self-collection: a scoping review of facilitators and strategies among Indigenous women and people with a cervix.BMC public health · 2026Article
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- Experiences of HPV self-collection among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and people with a cervix.PloS one · 2026Article
- Opportunistic offer of human papillomavirus (HPV) self-testing in ethnically diverse primary care clinics in Aotearoa New Zealand: an implementation study.BMC primary care · 2025Article
- Exponential uptake of HPV self-collected cervical screening testing 2 years since universal availability in Victoria, Australia.BMC medicine · 2025Article
- The Design and Evaluation of Community-Informed Video Resources to Promote Safe and Inclusive Cervical Screening for South Australian LGBTIQ+ People With a Cervix.Health promotion journal of Australia : official journal of Australian Association of Health Promotion Professionals · 2025Article
- The acceptability, safety, and performance of primary cervical screening through self-collected vaginal samples in an urban teaching hospital antenatal clinic setting.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- The acceptability of, and informational needs related to, self-collection cervical screening among women of Indian descent living in Victoria, Australia: A qualitative study.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2024Article
- Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of human papillomavirus and self-sampling among adult women: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
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- 'I'm a bit of a champion for it actually': qualitative insights into practitioner-supported self-collection cervical screening among early adopting Victorian practitioners in Australia.Primary health care research & development · 2023Article
- Self-Collection Cervical Screening in the Asia-Pacific Region: A Scoping Review of Implementation Evidence.JCO global oncology · 2023Article
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- Clinical Performance of the RealTiMicrobiology spectrum · 2022Article
- Human Papillomavirus Self-Sampling for Primary Cervical Cancer Screening in Under-Screened Women in Hong Kong during the COVID-19 Pandemic.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundCommencing 1 December 2017, Australia introduced human papillomavirus (hpv)-based cervical screening. As part of this Australian renewed National Cervical Screening Program (ncsp) women who are either never- or under-screened and who refuse a practitioner collected sample will be able to collect their own sample for cervical screening. The aim of this study is to examine the quantitative results of a pilot study into the acceptability of the self-collection alternative pathway.
methodsEligible participants were offered the opportunity to collect their own sample. Those who agreed were given a flocked swab and an instruction sheet and took their own sample in an area of the health care clinic that afforded them adequate privacy. These samples were then given to clinic staff who returned them to Victorian Cytology Service (vcs) Pathology for hpv nucleic acid testing.
resultsOf 98 eligible women, seventy-nine undertook self-collection for hpv-based cervical screening. Seventy-seven produced valid results, 14 were positive for oncogenic hpv, with 10 undertaking follow-up. Three women were found to have cervical squamous abnormalities with two of those being high-grade intraepithelial squamous lesions.
conclusionThe pilot study for self-collection for cervical screening produced quantitative data that were similar to that already reported in the literature, but had a much higher rate of acceptance compared with self-collection programs based in the home.
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