PICOS element Included Excluded
Population Are studies whose participants are:
  • Mainly CBRs involved in supporting community-based cervical screening services in LMIC setting,
  • Women aged 18 years and above eligible for screening in LMIC setting,
  • Women either HIV positive or HIV negative,
  • Women with prior normal screening results or scheduled for follow-up screening,
  • Women due or overdue for screening in settings such as screening programs, HIV clinics, community health centers, and reproductive health centers.
Are studies whose participants are:
  • CBRs supporting community-based cervical screening services outside LMIC setting,
  • Women who have had hysterectomy.
  • Women who were treated or are in follow-up care for cervical cancer.
  • Pregnant women.
  • Women younger than 18 years.
  • Women outside of LMIC setting.
Intervention
  • Services offered by CBRs with or without health care workers in cervical screening in LMIC setting.
  • Services offered by CBRs with focus on both cervical screening and other aspects of cervical cancer e.g. HPV vaccination. We will only extract and report findings for cervical screening.
  • Services offered by CBRs within and outside of LMICs. We will only extract and report findings for LMICs.
  • Services offered by CBRs in cervical screening outside LMIC setting.
  • Services offered by health care workers without CBRs in cervical screening.
  • Services offered by CBRs on other aspects of cervical cancer, not related to cervical screening e.g. HPV vaccination.
Comparison
  • Studies with or without control group, and the control groups are women who either receive no intervention, another intervention other than that of intervention group, or routine standard screening.
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Outcome
  • Role(s) played by CBRs in cervical screening uptake among women with and without HIV.
  • Evidence of uptake or non-uptake of cervical screening.
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Study design
  • Quantitative studies,
  • Qualitative studies,
  • Mixed-methods studies,
  • Systematic reviews.
  • Conference abstracts without full-text study.
  • Commentaries
  • Study protocols
  • Letters
  • Policy briefs