Completing the cervical screening pathway: Factors that facilitate the increase of self-collection uptake among under-screened and never-screened women, an Australian pilot study

Current Oncology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2018, Pages e17-e26

  McLachlan, Elizabeth ^a   Anderson, S ^b   Hawkes, D ^c   Saville, M ^c   Arabena, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Baarlinjan Medical Clinic   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cervical screening; Cultural and linguistically diverse; HPV self collection; Indigenous; Women

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; LIBRARY SCIENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NONHUMAN; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PILOT STUDY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; STAFF; WART VIRUS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 85042742114     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17187729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3747/co.25.3916     Document Type: Article

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