Single-visit program for cervical cancer prevention in a high-risk population

Self-Sampling for Human Papillomavirus in a Community Setting: Feasibility in Hispanic Women

“…In all cases, Pap smear and physician HPV sample collection were done within 2 weeks of notification of HPV results and 3 weeks after self-collection. At this point, participants joined a study protocol described in previous publications (29,30).…”

A single‐visit cervical carcinoma prevention program offered at an inner city church

“…Single-visit programs offer the great advantage of avoiding the substantial risk of loss to follow-up inherent to each step of the traditional three-visit approach to cervical carcinoma screening and prevention, [13][14][15][16] even if additional strategies to improve compliance are instituted, such as telephone counseling, letters, educational tapes, or provision of transportation. [23][24][25] In 1995, Burger et al 17 reported the first pilot study of a single-visit program for cervical carcinoma prevention through a community clinic in Orange County, California. They enrolled 126 participants, the majority of whom were Latinas with demographics similar to our study population.…”

“…Subjects were queried about personal demographics and socioeconomic status (age, country of origin, native language, ability to speak English, years of education, employment, marital status, spouse's education and employment, access to a telephone or car, and usual means of transportation), their health care (health insurance status, including MediCal/Medicare, usual source of medical care, and last medical care visit), certain risk factors for cervical carcinoma (age at first child birth, number of children born, smoking, and known HIV history), prior Pap smear history, treatment for abnormal cervical cytology, and interval to last cervical carcinoma screening visit. Participants rated their past experience with examinations for cervical carcinoma screening and answered a pretest with 4 multiple choice questions aimed at assessing their knowledge regarding cervical carcinoma prevention (modified from Burger et al, 1995). 17 The questions addressed whether Pap smears can detect cancer and premalignant cells, whether Pap smears are always correct, what is the recommended Pap smear screening interval, and whether cervical carcinoma is preventable.…”

“…Participants rated their past experience with examinations for cervical carcinoma screening and answered a pretest with 4 multiple choice questions aimed at assessing their knowledge regarding cervical carcinoma prevention (modified from Burger et al, 1995). 17 The questions addressed whether Pap smears can detect cancer and premalignant cells, whether Pap smears are always correct, what is the recommended Pap smear screening interval, and whether cervical carcinoma is preventable.…”

Guideline zum Vorgehen bei suspektem und positivem zytologischem Abstrich der Cervix uteri¹

“…Beide Methoden haben ihre Vor-und Nachteile, wobei sich die Zytologie als Screeningmethode vor allem in den angelsächsischen Ländern besser durchgesetzt hat. Idealerweise werden beide Methoden miteinander kombiniert [8,16,23,46,70,80]. Muss man sich aus Kostengründen auf eine Methode beschränken, ist die Zytologie zu favorisieren [6,9,11,18,47,77].…”