Views on choice for cervical screening method

Succeed Study

Welcome to our project website. Over the next year and a half we will be gathering views and experiences of people who are eligible for cervical screening (otherwise known as a smear test) and people who are involved in cervical screening. This information will be used to help people in the future if there becomes an option for cervical screening self-sampling to make the right choice for them.

The information we gather from this project will be used  to develop a decision support tool to help people make a choice that fits best with their own needs and preferences if they are offered a choice of cervical screening method.

Latest news

APRIL 2025

The SUCCEED study finished last year and we are very pleased to say that our findings have been published in Health Expectations, you can find it at this link: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11950154/.

We have published a press release if you would like to read that, here: https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/2906163-at-home-cervical-screening-scientists-advise-on-self-sampling-tests Which includes the quote “The introduction of HPV self-sampling as a choice for individuals in the UK needs to be supported by a robust communication strategy. This is vital in increasing public awareness and engagement. This must also be accompanied by decision support to facilitate informed decision-making when individuals are provided with a choice” from study PI, Dr Denitza Williams. 

We would like to thank all our study collaborators, study participants and wider teams that have supported this research and made it possible.

APRIL 2024

We have now completed all our interviews including those with stakeholders (53 in total). We are grateful to those who gave us their time, thank you. We are now analysing these alongside the earlier interviews with those eligible for cervical screening. From this we are creating a logical model, which is essentially a plan, of how self-sampling could be communicated to people and individual decisions supported should self-sampling be offered as a choice. We are also organising an online consortium (meeting) to share our findings and talk about next steps with stakeholders in June 2024. If you are interested in taking part in the consortium please email clarkee15@cardiff.ac.uk for further information.

We are looking forward to analysing our data and sharing our results when they are ready.

June 2023

We are very pleased that all 30 interviews with individuals eligible for cervical screening have been completed and an initial draft of the analysis framework has been developed. Thank you so much to everyone who took part in an interview, we are so grateful for your time. We will now be busy analysing all this rich data.

Funded BY

This study is funded by Cancer Research UK