Patient preference and acceptability of self-sampling for cervical screening in colposcopy clinic attenders: a cross-sectional semi-structured survey

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• What: Design This cross-sectional survey was designed along-side an on-going study to develop and evaluate a novel point-of-care cervical cancer screening device, to specifically look at acceptability of a self-sampling option for hrHPV detection. The main reasons that motivated participants to perform low vaginal self-sampling again in the future were test simplicity (n=170/190; 90%), speed (n=153/190; 81%) and that the test was not painful (n=123/190; 65%); whilst the main barriers were lack of confidence in taking the sample correctly (n=10/19; 53%) and . . .
  

   

  

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