Impact of an Educational Intervention on Women's Knowledge and Acceptability of Human Papillomavirus Self-Sampling: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Cameroon: e109788

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 9; no. 10
• Main Authors: Sossauer, Gaeetan, Zbinden, Michel, Tebeu, Pierre-Marie, Fosso, Gisele K, Untiet, Sarah, Vassilakos, Pierre, Petignat, Patrick
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 01.10.2014
• Subjects: Human papillomavirus

Objective Human papillomavirus (HPV) self-sampling (Self-HPV) may be used as a primary cervical cancer screening method in a low resource setting. Our aim was to evaluate whether an educational intervention would improve women's knowledge and confidence in the Self-HPV method. Method Women aged...