Research on risk and risk in research: theoretical and practical experiences from a multidisciplinary study on cervical cancer screening in urban Sweden

Qual Health Res. 1999 Jan;9(1):45-60. doi: 10.1177/104973299129121686.

Abstract

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.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Female
  • Group Processes
  • Health Services Research / methods*
  • Humans
  • Interpersonal Relations
  • Interviews as Topic
  • Patient Care Team*
  • Risk
  • Sweden / epidemiology
  • Urban Population
  • Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / epidemiology
  • Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / prevention & control*
  • Vaginal Smears