Carrying Out of Focus Group to Improve Cervical Screening Proposal by Vaginal Self-sampling (APACHE-4/FG).

Regional University Hospital Center (CHRU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cancer Cervix

Treatments: Other: Focus Group

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03420157

INCA17-JB/APACHE-4/FG

Details and patient eligibility

About

Despite the existence of an effective screening test (pap smear), cervical cancer is, every year in France, the cause of more than 3,000 new cases and 1,100 deaths. But, in France, 4 in 10 women are not screened or not often enough (nearly 7 millions women). It is therefore necessary to develop new strategies to reach these women. The etiological factor of this cancer is persistent infection with oncogenic High-Risk Human PapillomaVirus (HR-HPV). Thereby, HPV-based tests could be alternative screening tests. Vaginal self-sampling with HR-HPV test is simpler and less intrusive than the pap smear. It has been shown that vaginal self-sampling with HPV test is a powerful means to increase the participation rate in cervical cancer screening. The investigators hypothesize that it is possible to optimize participation rate by improving the communication media associated to the vaginal self-sampling kit. This is why the accompanying letter and the leaflet explaining how to perform the vaginal self-sampling will be submit to women opinion by using the Focus Group method. The objective is to identify improvement ideas of these two communication media.

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 30 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• women from 30 to 65 years old
• women living in french territorial division 37 ("Indre-et-Loire")
• no pap smear made in the three last years (ideally)

Exclusion criteria

• Follow-up in progress for positive screening

Trial design

20 participants in 1 patient group

Focus Group 1 & 2

Description:

Each Focus Group of 10 women will be led by a psychologist according to a semi-directive interview pattern. This interview guideline specifies in details the ideal proceedings of Focus Group, as well as the various predetermined topics to be addressed in the form of questions and / or relaunches. The interview guideline is divided into 2 parts: the accompanying letter and the leaflet explaining how to perform the vaginal self-sampling.

Treatment:

Other: Focus Group