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Women tend to interpret cervical smear test results correctly.
2004 AUG 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Answers women gave on a questionnaire about cervical cancer results show most interpreted the results correctly.
"Screening for cervical cancer using the Papanicolaou smear test has been available in England since the 1960s, yet very little is known about how women interpret their test results. This questionnaire study required women to explain, in their own words, the meaning of normal and abnormal test results," explained Z. Philips and colleagues, University of Nottingham.
They found that "the use of the word cell as a description of findings was extremely common, and that a proportion of subjects equated abnormal results with technical inadequacy."
In addition, "The frequency of circularity in the interpretations, i.e., interpreting 'normal' as 'not abnormal' and vice versa, was striking," the researchers said.
Philips and colleagues concluded, "Contrary to previous research, we find that, whilst many women ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Women tend to interpret cervical smear test results correctly.