@article{discovery10077672,
            note = {{\copyright} 2019 The Authors. International Journal of Cancer published by John Wiley \& Sons Ltd on behalf of UICC

This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.},
         journal = {International Journal of Cancer},
           title = {Anxiety and distress following receipt of results from routine HPV primary testing in cervical screening: the Psychological Impact of Primary Screening (PIPS) study},
            year = {2019},
             url = {https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.32540},
          author = {McBride, E and Marlow, LAV and Forster, AS and Ridout, D and Kitchener, H and Patnick, J and Waller, J},
        abstract = {We used a cross-sectional survey to examine short-term anxiety and distress in women receiving different results following routine human papillomavirus (HPV) primary testing at cervical screening. Participants were women aged 24-65 (n=1127) who had attended screening at one of five sites piloting HPV primary screening in England, including a control group with normal cytology who were not tested for HPV. Women completed a postal questionnaire {\texttt{\char126}}2 weeks after receiving their screening result. Unadjusted mean anxiety scores ranged from 32.9 (standard deviation (SD)=12.2) in HPV-negative women, to 42.1 (SD=14.9) in women who were HPV-positive with abnormal cytology. In adjusted analyses, anxiety was significantly higher in women testing HPV-positive with either normal cytology (mean difference (MD)=3.5, CI: 0.6-6.4) or abnormal cytology (MD=7.2, CI: 3.7-10.6), than the control group. Distress was slightly higher in women who tested HPV-positive with abnormal cytology (MD=0.9, CI: 0.02-1.8), than the control group. We also found increased odds of very high anxiety in women who tested HPV-positive with normal or abnormal cytology compared with the control group. This pattern of results was only observed among women receiving their first HPV-positive result, not among women found to have persistent HPV at 12-month follow-up. Testing HPV-positive with normal cytology for the first time, is associated with elevated anxiety despite carrying very low immediate cervical cancer risk. However, receiving the same test result at 12-month early recall does not appear to be associated with higher anxiety, suggesting anxiety may normalise with repeated exposure and/or over time. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.},
        keywords = {cancer screening, human papillomavirus, psychological impact, psychological wellbeing, women},
            issn = {1097-0215}
}