Factors affecting cervical screening uptake in prisoners
Factors affecting cervical screening uptake in prisoners
Imprisoned women are at increased risk of cervical cancer but less likely to have been screened for this disease. There is very little information on the situation in prisons in the UK but this study indicates that, as anticipated, these women are less likely to have been screened in the last five years than women generally. Whilst there are no ethnic differences, it appears that women who had been in prison longer than three months were more likely to have had a smear in the last five years compared with those who had been in for three months or less (79.2% vs 37.5%, Chi-squared=9.7, p=0.002) suggesting that the prison health services had been able to use this opportunity to screen this disadvantaged population.
England, Female, Humans, Mass Screening/methods, Prisoners, Uterine Cervical Neoplasms/prevention & control, Vaginal Smears/statistics & numerical data
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Plugge, E.
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Fitzpatrick, R.
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March 2004
Plugge, E.
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Fitzpatrick, R.
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Plugge, E. and Fitzpatrick, R.
(2004)
Factors affecting cervical screening uptake in prisoners.
Journal of Medical Screening, 11 (1), .
(doi:10.1177/096914130301100111).
Abstract
Imprisoned women are at increased risk of cervical cancer but less likely to have been screened for this disease. There is very little information on the situation in prisons in the UK but this study indicates that, as anticipated, these women are less likely to have been screened in the last five years than women generally. Whilst there are no ethnic differences, it appears that women who had been in prison longer than three months were more likely to have had a smear in the last five years compared with those who had been in for three months or less (79.2% vs 37.5%, Chi-squared=9.7, p=0.002) suggesting that the prison health services had been able to use this opportunity to screen this disadvantaged population.
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Accepted/In Press date: 7 January 2004
Published date: March 2004
Keywords:
England, Female, Humans, Mass Screening/methods, Prisoners, Uterine Cervical Neoplasms/prevention & control, Vaginal Smears/statistics & numerical data
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Local EPrints ID: 485334
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/485334
ISSN: 0969-1413
PURE UUID: a7d03398-a99c-4ac2-abc4-8eab7a5eccb1
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