Young women’s participation in cervical screening
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Young women and cervical screening: Developing an understanding into factors that influence participation and non-participation in the cervical screening programme by young women aged 25-35years in the North East England
IRAS ID
139450
Contact name
Mabel .O. Okoeki
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Northumbria University
Research summary
This piece of research aims to develop an understanding into factors that influences participation and non-participation of cervical screening among young women living in the North East of England, and will include women ages 25-34years who have never been screened and those who have attended their initial invitation but didn’t go for a re-screen.\nA qualitative approach employing Grounded Theory method will be used. Theoretical sampling, a non-probability purposive sampling technique associated with Grounded theory will be used for recruitment. Data will be obtained with semi structured face-to-face interviews and will be analyzed with grounded theory techniques. Analysis will be done by organization of data into codes, themes, and categories by Nvivo and Mind Genius software. \nThere is limited research that focuses specifically on the aforementioned age group. Literature available which focused on factors influencing uptake of the cervical screening have been done in other countries such as America, Canada Sweden, various regions in the UK, with emphasis mainly on ethnic minority group and general age group. There are also variations in their methodology and approaches. There are insufficient studies within the North East, available studies dwelled more on proposed evaluation of interventions within these age group rather than giving depth attention to their views regarding uptake/participation.\nWith low uptake still recorded there is among the aforementioned age group termed “high risk” there is a need for a bottom up approach to examining the factors that influence participation in cervical cancer screening from service users’ viewpoints in England most especially the North East is vital. An in depth understanding of these factors is likely to hold the key to devising age appropriate strategies for increasing uptake. \nThis study will provide evidence that is very likely to underpin practice through specific recommendations attained during the study that could be useful in the development of age appropriate interventions using social marketing as this research will be conducted in conjunction with the North East, Yorkshire and the Humber Quality Assurance Reference Centre (QARC).
REC name
East of England - Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
14/EE/0208
Date of REC Opinion
3 Jun 2014
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion