SynthesisBMC women's health2023
Interventions to increase the uptake of cervical cancer screening in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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- Interventions and Strategies to Increase Cervical Cancer Screening, Treatment, and Retention in Care among Persons with HIV in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review.AIDS and behavior · 2025Pooled it
- Knowledge about cervical cancer in young Portuguese women: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in public health · 2024Trial
- Mapping community-based health promotion strategies for cervical cancer screening uptake: A scoping review of intervention components, delivery models and implementation gaps.Public health in practice (Oxford, England) · 2026Review
- Cross-country inequalities and frontier analysis in global burden of cervical cancer: cross-sectional studies.Journal of gynecologic oncology · 2026Article
- Sociodemographic Determinants of Cervical Cancer Screening among Ever-Married Women in Jordan: Insights from the 2023 Jordan Population and Family Health Survey.Journal of epidemiology and global health · 2026Article
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- Expanding access to HPV screening through community health insurance schemes: lessons from a screening exercise for teachers in Ghana.BMC health services research · 2025Article
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- Efforts to increase uptake of cervical cancer screening in the absence of a national programme in Ghana: a qualitative study of stakeholders' experience.BMC public health · 2025Article
- An Investigation of the Effect of Education Interventions Given to Women in Turkey with Religious Orientation on Cervical Cancer and Pap Smear Test Health Beliefs.Journal of religion and health · 2025Article
- Rural-urban disparities in cervical cancer screening uptake and its predictors among women aged 30-49 years in Ghana: a multivariate decomposition analysis.BMC women's health · 2025Article
- Interventions to Improve the Uptake of Cervical Cancer Screening with Visual Inspection with Acetic Acid: A Scoping Review.Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2025Article
- Client perspectives and satisfaction with integrating facility and community-based HPV self-sampling for cervical cancer screening with family planning: a mixed method study.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Effect of girls' education on cancer awareness and screening in a natural experiment in Lesotho.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Disparities in Cancer Screening Among the Foreign-Born Population in the United States: A Narrative Review.Cancers · 2025Review
- Evaluation of the Impact of Cervical Cancer and HPV Educational Awareness Program in Macon County, Alabama from 2018 to 2023.Journal of healthcare, science and the humanities · 2025Article
- Service-Delivery Models to Increase the Uptake of Non-Communicable Disease Screening in South-Central Ethiopia: A Difference-In-Differences Analysis.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- EMR-Based Interventions on HPV Vaccination Initiation, Completion, and Receiving the Next Dose: A Meta-Analytic Review.Vaccines · 2024Review
- Mother-Child Approach to Cervical Cancer Prevention in a Low Resource Setting: The Cameroon Baptist Convention Health Services Story.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2024Article
- Social validity of acceptance-based workplace mental health training for use in a low resource setting. A qualitative study with Ugandan mental health providers.PLOS mental health · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundTo identify effective interventions to increase the uptake of cervical cancer screening (CCS) for low-and middle-income countries (LMICs).
methodsWe searched PubMed, CENTRAL, ISI Web of Sciences, Scopus, OVID (Medline), CINAHL, LILACS, CNKI and OpenGrey for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and cluster RCTs conducted in LMICs from January 2000 to September 2021. Two reviewers independently screened studies, extracted data, assessed risk of bias and certainty of evidence. Meta-analyses with random-effects models were conducted for data synthesis.
resultsWe included 38 reports of 24 studies involving 318,423 participants from 15 RCTs and nine cluster RCTs. Single interventions may increase uptake of CCS when compared with control (RR 1.47, 95% CI 1.19 to 1.82). Self-sampling of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) testing may increase uptake of CCS relative to routine Visual Inspection with Acetic Acid (RR 1.93, 95% CI 1.66 to 2.25). Reminding with phone call may increase uptake of CCS than letter (RR 1.72, 95% CI 1.27 to 2.32) and SMS (RR 1.59, 95% CI 1.19 to 2.13). Sending 15 health messages may increase uptake of CCS relative to one SMS (RR 2.75, 95% CI 1.46 to 5.19). Free subsidized cost may increase uptake of CCS slightly than $0.66 subsidized cost (RR 1.60, 95% CI 1.10 to 2.33). Community based HPV test may increase uptake of CCS slightly in compared to hospital collected HPV (RR 1.67, 95% CI 1.53 to 1.82). The evidence is very uncertain about the effect of combined interventions on CCS uptake relative to single intervention (RR 2.20, 95% CI 1.54 to 3.14).
conclusionsSingle interventions including reminding with phone call, SMS, community self-sampling of HPV test, and free subsidized services may enhance CCS uptake. Combined interventions, including health education interventions and SMS plus e-voucher, may be better than single intervention. Due to low-certainty evidences, these findings should be applied cautiously.
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