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RESEARCH ROUNDUP

02 July 2024
Volume 35 · Issue 7

Abstract

George Winter provides an overview of recently published articles that may be of interest to practice nurses. Should you wish to look at any of the papers in more detail, a full reference is provided

In 2018, the Irish Health Service Executive disclosed that some women diagnosed with invasive cervical cancer were not told that their earlier smear tests had been reviewed, post-diagnosis and found to be false negatives.

In this study, Poluektova et al (2024) investigated levels of trust and attribution of blame related to a cervical screening programme following this controversy – related to the programme's audit – by devising an experimental test of the effectiveness of new information materials. The researchers compared responses in Ireland (N = 872) to equivalent responses in Scotland (N = 400), which was unaffected by the controversy. Participants in Ireland were randomly assigned to either a treatment group that received the information materials or a control group that did not. Participants then responded to questions about their trust in cervical screening and how they would attribute blame in different scenarios describing women diagnosed with cervical cancer between screening rounds.

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