Health care workers' experiences with implementation of "screen and treat" for cervical cancer prevention in Malawi: A qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cervical cancer remains a major cause of mortality and morbidity in low- and middle-income countries, despite the availability of effective prevention approaches. "Screen and treat" (a single-visit strategy to identify and remove abnormal cervical cells) is the recommended secondary prevention approach in low-resource settings, but there has been relatively scarce robust implementation science evidence on barriers and facilitators to providing "screen and treat" from the provider perspective, or about thermocoagulation as a lesion removal technique.

Methods

Informed by the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR), we conducted interviews with ten experienced "screen and treat" providers in Malawi. We asked questions based on the CFIR Guide, used t

SUBMITTER: Moucheraud C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7734769 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature