Women's critical experiences with the pap smear for the development of cervical cancer screening devices

• DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e14289
• Publication Date: 2023-03-07T22:03:18Z
• Authors: Marcela Arrivillaga; Paula C. Bermúdez; Juan Pablo García...; Mérida Rodríguez-...; Daniela Neira; Hernán Darío Varg...
• Keywords: PsycINFO; Embarrassment

Global cervical cancer incidence and mortality have remained a major public health problem. Depending on the quality coverage of preventive programs, capacity care systems, different screening tests are used, with Pap smear being most widely implemented. Several difficulties been reported in accessing timely detection, causing late diagnosis. Trying to close these gaps, new devices developed recent years; however, there is lack knowledge about whether or not women perspective has included design process technological development devices. This scoping review aimed describe synthesize scientific literature women's critical experiences smears prospectively contribute design, development, scale-up The electronic databases Web Science, Scopus, PubMed, PsycINFO SciELO were searched for relevant studies published between 2012 2021; finally, 18 qualitative included. Experiences classified into four categories: fear embarrassment, speculum pain discomfort, outcome distress service barriers. Critical before, during, after test analyzed turn. In particular, during test, associated use speculum. acceptability will largely depend comfort delivery results. provides useful synthesis, only advance novel but also future implementation research services.