Improving Communication and Management Following a Positive Home HPV Self-Sampling Result: Comparing Intervention Strategies Between the HOME and STEP Trials.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mailed human papillomavirus (HPV) self-sampling kits improve cervical cancer screening adherence. The HOME trial found information needs and anxiety among HPV-positive patients. We designed a STEP trial to test optimized intervention strategies with bolstered educational materials and a centralized nurse communicating positive results. Here, we evaluate the effect of the strategies by comparing interviews of HOME and STEP participants receiving HPV-positive results.

Materials and methods

STEP participants were interviewed during December 2021-March 2022, and asked about their kit reaction and nurse communication, and surveyed on attitudes toward the kit. Transcripts were analyzed in two phases: (1) Coders used iterative content analysis to organize codes into node

SUBMITTER: Tiro JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12415163 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature