Pap test quality - practitioners
Hospital outpatient cervical cancer screening
Cervical cancer screening: information needs of general practitioners
Nurses Credentialling Process Evaluation
Principal Investigator(s): Robyn Mullins, Jenny Anderson, Maria McKenzie, Madeline Fernbach, Melanie Wakefield
Aim(s): To establish baseline data on the quality of Pap tests being taken in 2000/01 from the perspective of the recipients.
Funding: PapScreen Victoria
Contact: cbrc
Principal Investigator(s): Robyn Mullins, Jenny Anderson, Maria McKenzie, Madeline Fernbach, Melanie Wakefield
Aim(s): To establish baseline data on the quality of Pap tests being taken in 2001 from the perspective of the practitioners.
Funding: PapScreen Victoria
Contact: cbrc
Principal Investigator(s): Robyn Mullins, Jenny Anderson
Aim(s): To investigate the potential for cervical cancer screening in outpatient setting.
Funding: PapScreen Victoria
Contact: cbrc
Principal Investigator(s): Robyn Mullins, Jenny Anderson
Aim(s): To explore the information needs of GPs in relation to cervical cancer screening.
Funding: PapScreen Victoria
Contact: cbrc
Principal Investigator(s): Robyn Mullins
Aim(s): To evaluate the current reminder letter sent out by the Victorian Cervical Cytology Registry to women who are due for a Pap test for:
- content relevancy
- message framing
- style of language
- ability to motivate intention to screen
If required, design a new, evidence-based, reminder letter and test this letter on a sample of target women for acceptance and ability to motivate intention to screen.
Funding: PapScreen Victoria
Reports: Evaluation of a strategy to increase cervical screening through the use of personalised letters. CBRC Research Paper Series No. 15. August 2005.
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Contact: cbrc
Principal Investigator(s): Jenny Anderson
Aim(s): To design and conduct an evaluation of the Pap test nurses credentialling process to determine process acceptance and quality improvement.
Funding: PapScreen Victoria
Contact: cbrc
Screening an invisible target group - lesbians need Pap tests too
Principal Investigator(s): Maria McKenzie, Madeline Fernbach, Judith Jones, Valerie Clarke, Sheila Hirst
Aim(s): To identify changes in knowledge, beliefs and behaviours of Vietnamese women in relation to cervical screening.
Completed: 2003
Contact: cbrc
Principal Investigator(s): Adrienne Brown, Julie Hassard, Melanie Wakefield
Aim(s): The central aim of this study is to increase current knowledge surrounding the cervical screening experience of lesbians. More specifically, it aims to determine whether cervical screening rates of lesbians differed from those of the general population, to identify barriers faced by lesbians with respect to cervical screening, and to explore the prevalence of detection of cervical abnormalities in lesbians.
Completed: 2003
Contact: cbrc
