Research on risk and risk in research: theoretical and practical experiences from a multidisciplinary study on cervical cancer screening in urban Sweden.
This article describes a qualitative research project on secondary cancer prevention that was conducted using a multidisciplinary team and that was inspired by perspectives from feminist research and fourth-generation evaluation. A screening program for cervical cancer was investigated from the perspective of different stakeholders through a series of substudies using a variety of qualitative approaches, in order to have a broad basis for consideration and negotiation of improvements. The first sections of this article describe the theoretical and methodological basis for the project, which triangulates a variety of qualitative and quantitative research strategies, whereas the latter sections describe some of our experiences, positive and negative, as a research team (and thus also as stakeholders) in actually conducting the studies.
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Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. carol.tishelman@phs.ki.se
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D005260:Female; D006126:Group Processes; D006302:Health Services Research / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D010348:Patient Care Team; D012306:Risk; D013548:Sweden / Q000453:epidemiology; D014505:Urban Population; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014626:Vaginal Smears