Management of abnormal results of the cervical screening during pregnancy

ObjectiveTo explore women’s experiences of the renewed National Cervical Screening Program in Australia from the perspective of women who have received different human papillomavirus (HPV) test results. Women aged 25 to 74 are now screened every 5 years with primary HPV screening.DesignQualitative interview study.SettingAustralia.ParticipantsWomen in Australia aged 25 to 74 who reported participating in cervical screening since December 2017, purposively sampled by test result (HPV positive, HPV negative and HPV status unknown).Methods26 interviews with women aged 25 to 74 were conducted and analysed thematically.ResultsThree main themes emerged: knowledge and attitudes about the programme changes, information dissemination, the meaning and responses to test results and the new cervical screening test (CST). Some women showed little awareness of the changes, but others understood that HPV is detected earlier than abnormal cells. Some expressed positive attitudes towards the CST and were not anxious about less frequent screening. Most women envisaged the changes would have minimal impact on their screening behaviour. Women mainly wanted more information about the changes and the possible results from the new CST. Overall women could recall their HPV results and understand the implications for future cervical screening. Anxiety about being at ‘increased risk’ was more apparent in women who were HPV positive without history of abnormal results.ConclusionsWomen show some understanding of HPV and the new CST, but more written and public communication about the changes and possible results are warranted. Efforts are needed to ensure that women who are HPV positive without history of abnormal results receive the information needed to alleviate anxiety.

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Many Women Could Stop Cervical Screening at Age 50

Internal Medicine News ◽

10.1016/s1097-8690(05)71918-1 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 38 (18) ◽

pp. 32

Author(s):

SHERRY BOSCHERT

Keyword(s):

Cervical Screening

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Women's attitudes and understanding of cervical cancer and the new National Cervical Screening Program

Health Promotion Journal of Australia ◽

10.1002/hpja.365 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Archana Nagendiram ◽

Rachel Bidgood ◽

Jennifer Banks ◽

Clare Heal

Keyword(s):

Cervical Cancer ◽

Screening Program ◽

Cervical Screening

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Knowledge and Practice of Cervical Cancer Screening among Women in Orlu Local Government Area, Imo State, Nigeria.

10.33798/ajmas2019/00266 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 55-65

Author(s):

Jude Egwurugwu ◽

S.D. Ejikunle ◽

E.I. Dike ◽

M.C. Ohamaeme ◽

Jude Egwurugwu ◽

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Keyword(s):

Cervical Cancer ◽

Cancer Screening ◽

Local Government ◽

Cervical Cancer Screening ◽

Cervical Screening ◽

Local Government Area ◽

Care Providers ◽

Imo State ◽

Study Results ◽

Knowledge And Practice

Background: Cervical cancer is the 2nd commonest cancer among women worldwide and the most common cancer among women in developing countries like Nigeria. Though preventable by screening for premalignant and early cervical lesions, this is predicated on the knowledge and practice of a cervical screening. Objective: To assess the knowledge and practice of cervical cancer screening among women in Orlu, Local Government Area(LGA) Imo State, Nigeria. Materials & Methods: A community based cross-sectional study with the use of 502 interviewer – administered questionnaires was conducted among women in Orlu LGA of Imo State. All the women in the communities attending the annual August Meeting who consented were recruited for this study. Results: The study showed that the mean age of the respondents was 42±2.8years. Furthermore, 82.3% of respondents attained postsecondary school educational level, 61.8% & 21.1% were multiparous and grand multiparous respectively. Also, 80.5% of respondents have heard about cervical cancer screening. Majority (67.5%) of these respondents heard it from health care providers. There was a positive statistically significant relationship between educational status and the likelihood of having knowledge of cervical cancer screening, (p< 0.01). The level of practice of cervical cancer screening was very low among the respondents(13.5%).Though majority of the respondents have high level of educational attainment this did not reflect their practice of cervical cancer screening. Conclusion: There was high knowledge of cervical cancer and cervical screening modalities among women in Orlu but their practice of cervical cancer screening was very low. There is an urgent need to educate and encourage women on the benefits of cervical cancer screening. Key words: cervical cancer, knowledge, Practice, Orlu women, Screening.

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Development, implementation and early evaluation of a pilot cervical screening clinic for women who have been sexually assaulted

10.26226/morressier.5731a407d462b8028d88c795 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Jill Zelin

Keyword(s):

Cervical Screening ◽

Early Evaluation ◽

Sexually Assaulted ◽

Screening Clinic

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REVIEW OF COMPLEMENT FUNCTION TESTING AND CORRELATION OF ABNORMAL RESULTS WITH PRIMARY AND SECONDARY COMPLEMENT DEFICIENCY

10.26226/morressier.57bc1756d462b80290b4da59 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Matthew Buckland

Keyword(s):

Complement Deficiency ◽

Function Testing ◽

Abnormal Results

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s2p: Provenance Research for Stream Processing System

Applied Sciences ◽

10.3390/app11125523 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (12) ◽

pp. 5523

Author(s):

Qian Ye ◽

Minyan Lu

Keyword(s):

Data Storage ◽

Stream Processing ◽

Processing System ◽

Coarse Grained ◽

Stream Data ◽

Related Data ◽

Dsp System ◽

Provenance Research ◽

Dsp Systems ◽

Abnormal Results

The main purpose of our provenance research for DSP (distributed stream processing) systems is to analyze abnormal results. Provenance for these systems is not nontrivial because of the ephemerality of stream data and instant data processing mode in modern DSP systems. Challenges include but are not limited to an optimization solution for avoiding excessive runtime overhead, reducing provenance-related data storage, and providing it in an easy-to-use fashion. Without any prior knowledge about which kinds of data may finally lead to the abnormal, we have to track all transformations in detail, which potentially causes hard system burden. This paper proposes s2p (Stream Process Provenance), which mainly consists of online provenance and offline provenance, to provide fine- and coarse-grained provenance in different precision. We base our design of s2p on the fact that, for a mature online DSP system, the abnormal results are rare, and the results that require a detailed analysis are even rarer. We also consider state transition in our provenance explanation. We implement s2p on Apache Flink named as s2p-flink and conduct three experiments to evaluate its scalability, efficiency, and overhead from end-to-end cost, throughput, and space overhead. Our evaluation shows that s2p-flink incurs a 13% to 32% cost overhead, 11% to 24% decline in throughput, and few additional space costs in the online provenance phase. Experiments also demonstrates the s2p-flink can scale well. A case study is presented to demonstrate the feasibility of the whole s2p solution.

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