Timely reminder interventions to improve annual Papanicolaou (Pap) smear rates among HIV-infected women in an outpatient center of southern Nevada: a short report

Autor:	Sheniz Moonie, Vimala Ganta, Jan Richardson, Dina Patel, David Di John, Aaron T. Hunt, Echezona E. Ezeanolue
Rok vydání:	2017
Předmět:	Adult 0301 basic medicine medicine.medical_specialty Outpatient Clinics Hospital Health (social science) Social Psychology Reminder Systems Psychological intervention Uterine Cervical Neoplasms Papanicolaou stain HIV Infections Cervical cancer screening Cohort Studies Adult women 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Hiv infected Outpatients medicine Text messaging Humans Mass Screening 030212 general & internal medicine Early Detection of Cancer Vaginal Smears Gynecology Text Messaging Pap smears Obstetrics business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Middle Aged 030112 virology Cohort Female business Nevada Papanicolaou Test
Zdroj:	AIDS Care. 29:1099-1101
ISSN:	1360-0451 0954-0121
DOI:	10.1080/09540121.2017.1322677
Popis:	Current guidelines recommend annual Papanicolaou (Pap) smears for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected women for cervical cancer screening. Rates for such screening in Nevada are below the national rate. Our cohort includes 485 eligible HIV-infected adult women from an outpatient center in Southern Nevada of which only 12 women had obtained a Pap smear in the past year. An intervention was conducted from June 2015 to September 2015, in which reminders to schedule a Pap smear were sent to the remaining cohort of 473 women via sequential text messaging, followed by phone call attempts. Of all subjects, 94% contacted by text messages and 41% contacted by phone calls were successfully reached. There was an increase in the rate of completed Pap smears from 2.5% (12/485) at baseline to 11.8% (56/473) after interventions (p 0.0001) in a period of three months. Out of the 68 Pap smear results, 20 (29.4%) were abnormal. Our intervention, utilizing methods of communication such as text messaging and phone calls, markedly increased the rate of completed Pap smear screening in our population.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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