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Women’s preference of specimen collection methods for human papillomavirus detection: A cross-sectional study of HIV-positive and HIV–negative women in Mombasa, Kenya.
dc.contributor.advisor | McClelland, Raymond Scott | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Manguro, Griffins Odhiambo | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-09-29T17:55:14Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-09-29T17:55:14Z | |
dc.date.submitted | 2015 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | Manguro_washington_0250O_15131.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1773/33502 | |
dc.description | Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2015 | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Self-collection of genital specimens for HPV detection may increase cervical cancer screening uptake in Sub-Saharan Africa. We hypothesized that women would prefer self-collection to clinician-collection of genital specimens. To assess this, and their preference between two different self-collection cytobrushes, 200 women were enrolled in a cross-sectional study in Mombasa, Kenya. Participants provided self-collected specimens using the Evalyn cytobrush (Rovers) and the Viba cytobrush (Rovers) stored in Aptima media (Hologic). A clinician also collected specimens. A post-examination questionnaire assessed preferences for the different methods of specimen collection. The majority of women preferred clinician-collection to self-collection (68% versus 32%, p<0.01). For self-collection, the Evalyn brush was preferred to the Viba brush (53% versus 27%, p<0.01). There was no association between preference for self-collection and preference for self-collection cytobrush. Further research to understand and address obstacles to self-collection may be needed to improve the uptake of this approach. | en_US |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.rights | Copyright is held by the individual authors. | en_US |
dc.subject | Africa; human papillomavirus; preference; self-collection | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Epidemiology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | global health | en_US |
dc.title | Women’s preference of specimen collection methods for human papillomavirus detection: A cross-sectional study of HIV-positive and HIV–negative women in Mombasa, Kenya. | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.embargo.terms | Open Access | en_US |
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