ArticlePreventive medicine reports2021
Investigating the decrease in participation in the Dutch cervical cancer screening programme: The role of personal and organisational characteristics.
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- Evidence from Europe on implementation, participation and performance of self-collection for cervical cancer screening.Future oncology (London, England) · 2026Review
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- Women's compliance with cervical cancer screening recommendations and associated barriers to participation: A cross-sectional analysis.PloS one · 2026Article
- Perspective of pregnant women on feasibility of integrating cervical cancer screening into antenatal care in the Netherlands: a questionnaire study.European journal of public health · 2025Article
- Cervical cancer screening: Sharing best practices and addressing common challenges in cervical cancer screening programs.International journal of cancer · 2025Article
- Influencing factors on attendance in cervical cancer screening among women with diabetes in Hungary: a cross-sectional study using European Health Interview Surveys 2009-2019.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Article
- Exploring the role of the oncology nurse in cervical cancer screening programs during times of transition.Canadian oncology nursing journal = Revue canadienne de nursing oncologique · 2025Article
- Experiences and Perceptions of Cervical Cancer Screening Using Self-Sampling among Under-Screened Women in Flanders.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Impact of health-related behavioral factors on participation in a cervical cancer screening program: the lifelines population-based cohort.BMC public health · 2023Article
- The effect of extended participation windows on attendance at cervical cancer screening.Preventive medicine reports · 2023Article
- Sociodemographic Characteristics and Screening Outcomes of Women Preferring Self-Sampling in the Dutch Cervical Cancer Screening Programme: A Population-Based Study.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2023Article
- Organized Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening: Attendance and Determinants in Rural China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Experiences and preferences towards collecting a urine and cervicovaginal self-sample among women attending a colposcopy clinic.Preventive medicine reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
Declining attendance in the Dutch cervical cancer screening programme was recently observed, coinciding with preparations for implementing primary hrHPV-based screening, which was implemented in January 2017. We aimed to investigate which factors were related to decreased attendance. We conducted a population-based cohort study including all women aged 30 to 60 years who were eligible for screening between 2014 and 2018. Attendance was defined as participation in the screening programme within 15 months of the start of the invitation-eligible year. We used data from the Dutch pathology archive (PALGA) linked with data from Statistics Netherlands to investigate population characteristics (position in the household, household income, socio-economic status, number of people in the household, migration background, age) and data from the five Dutch screening organisations (SO) to investigate the effect of cessing self-inviting GP's ('inviting organisation'). SO's were termed SO 1 to 5. Higher attendance rates were observed in women who were employed (60.8%), married (62.9%), Dutch (61.2%), in the highest income bracket (63.4%), living in households with four persons (65.3%) and women who were invited by their GP (69.8%). Differences in personal characteristics did not explain the decline in attendance rates. By adjusting for whether the GP or the SO sent the invitation, the differences in attendance rates between 2014 and 2015 and 2016 and between 2014 and 2015 and 2017-2018 were explained in some screening organisations. Removing the possibility for GPs to send invitations explains some of the decline in participation, although this did not account for the total change in attendance.
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