Community-Based Screening for Cervical Cancer: A Feasibility Study of Rural Appalachian Women

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Describes a community-based screening program for rural Appalachian women that examines the women's comfort levels and experience self-collecting swabs for HPV testing, whether nurse-guided patient navigation increases the odds of women receiving a traditional Pap test after HPV screening, and explores the hypothesis that women testing positive for oncogenic HPV would be more likely to have a Pap test than those testing negative.

Richard A. Crosby, Michael E. Hagensee, Robin Vanderpool, et al.

Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 42(11), 607-611

11/2015

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Appalachia · Cancer · Health screening · Sexual and reproductive health · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Women