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DO Dorcas Obiri-Yeboah
YA Yaw Adu-Sarkodie
FD Florencia Djigma
AH Anna Hayfron-Benjamin
LA Latif Abdul
JS Jacques Simpore
PM Philippe Mayaud
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To simulate home-based sampling, recruited participants at the clinic were instructed on how to obtain SC vaginal samples using the careHPV brush and to place it in the careHPV collection medium (Qiagen, Gaithersburg, MD). Participants then underwent a speculum exam during which clinicians collected a cervical sample using the careHPV brush and transport medium. After sample collection, participants filled a short questionnaire to assess their experience and views of SC compared with CC. The questionnaire was administered by the clinician who collected the sample. Four questions were asked, with two using a Lichter’s scale of possible responses (Table 2).

Positive agreement between clinician-collected (CC) and self-collected (SC) careHPV samples for the detection of 14 high-risk HPV genotypes among 191 women in Cape Coast Teaching Hospital, Ghana

aThe definition of “positive agreement” is proportion of individuals with concordant CC and SC samples test results

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