Consequences of screening in cervical cancer: development and dimensionality of a questionnaire.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cervical cancer screening will inevitably lead to unintentional harmful effects e.g. detection of indolent pathological conditions defined as overdetection or overdiagnosis. Overdiagnosis often leads to overutilisation, overtreatment, labelling and thereby negative psychosocial consequences. There is a lack of adequate psychosocial measures when it comes to measurement of the harms of medical screening. However, the Consequences of Screening questionnaire (COS) has been found relevant and comprehensive with adequate psychometric properties in breast and lung cancer screening. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to extend the Consequences of Screening Questionnaire for use in cervical cancer screening by testing for content coverage, dimensionality, and reliabilit

SUBMITTER: Brodersen J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6086061 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature