Education efforts may contribute to wider acceptance of human papillomavirus self-sampling

International Journal of Women's Health

Volumn 7, Issue , 2015, Pages 149-154

  Crofts, Victoria ^a   Flahault, Emmanuel ^a   Tebeu, Pierre Marie ^b   Untiet, Sarah ^c   Fosso, Gisèle Kengne ^b   Boulvain, Michel ^c   Vassilakos, Pierre ^d   Petignat, Patrick ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b University Hospitals   (Cameroon)

^c GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^d WHO Collaborating Centre in Education and Research in Human Reproduction   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cameroon women; Cervical cancer screening; HPV; Low resource country; Physician sampling; Self sampling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CAMEROON; CANCER SCREENING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MIDDLE AGED; NONHUMAN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PHYSICIAN SAMPLING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAMPLING; SELF EVALUATION; SELF SAMPLING; SOCIAL CLASS; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VIRUS EXAMINATION; WART VIRUS;

EID: 84922350090     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11791411     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/IJWH.S56307     Document Type: Article

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