{"doi":"10.1089/lgbt.2023.0336","title":"RETRACTED: Cervicovaginal and Anal Self-Sampling for Human Papillomavirus Testing in a Transgender and Gender Diverse Population Assigned Female at Birth: Comfort, Difficulty, and Willingness to Use","abstract":"Purpose: Transgender and gender diverse (TGD) people assigned female at birth (AFAB) face numerous barriers to preventive care, including for cervical cancer screening. At-home human papillomavirus (HPV) testing may expand access to cervical cancer screening for TGD people AFAB. This study assessed the perceptions of TGD individuals AFAB who self-collected cervicovaginal and anal samples. Methods: We recruited TGD individuals AFAB to collect cervicovaginal and anal specimens at home using self-sampling for HPV testing, and individuals reported their perceptions of self-sampling. Associations between demographic and health characteristics and each of comfort of use, ease of use, and willingness to use self-sampling were estimated using robust Poisson regression. Results: Of 137 consenting participants, 101 completed the sample collection and the surveys. The majority of participants reported that the cervicovaginal self-swab was not uncomfortable (68.3%) and not difficult to use (86.1%), and nearly all (96.0%) were willing to use the swab in the future. Fewer participants found the anal swab to not be uncomfortable (47.5%), but most participants still found the anal swab to not be difficult to use (70.2%) and were willing to use the swab in the future (89.1%). Participants were more willing to use either swab if they had not seen a medical professional in the past year. Conclusions: TGD individuals AFAB were willing to use and preferred self-sampling methods for cervicovaginal and anal HPV testing. Developing clinically approved self-sampling options for HPV testing could expand access to cancer screening for TGD populations.","journal":"LGBT Health","year":2024,"id":442208,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":8,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9529,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2024-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":876285,"name":"E. Cowles Andrus","orcid":"0000-0002-5272-7258","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1163031,"name":"Claire B. Sandler","orcid":null,"position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":237464,"name":"Molly B. Moravek","orcid":"0000-0001-9972-4938","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":825844,"name":"Daphna Stroumsa","orcid":"0000-0003-1205-3217","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":935811,"name":"Shanna K. Kattari","orcid":"0000-0003-3489-7058","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":497931,"name":"Heather M. Walline","orcid":"0000-0003-3790-5738","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":498594,"name":"Christine M. Goudsmit","orcid":null,"position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":424315,"name":"Andrew F. Brouwer","orcid":"0000-0002-3779-5287","position":8,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1162594,"name":"Erin Welsh","orcid":"0009-0002-7647-6200","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":29,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T02:01:15.932178Z","pmid":"38574315","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}