Sociodemographic Characteristics and Screening Outcomes of Women Preferring Self-Sampling in the Dutch Cervical Cancer Screening Programme: A Population-Based Study.

"Authors' Disclosures C.A. Aitken reports grants from Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu during the conduct of the study; grants from Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu outside the submitted work. S. Kaljouw reports grants from Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu) during the conduct of the study; grants from Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu) outside the submitted work. H.G. Niesters reports grants from UMC Groningen during the conduct of the study. I.M. de Kok reports grants from The Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu) during the conduct of the study. No disclosures were reported by the other authors."

"The authors wish to acknowledge the CBS Microdata team for their assistance with managing the data for this study and for the original linkage of the data from PALGA with CBS. C.A. Aitken, F. Inturrisi, S. Kaljouw, J. Berkhof, and I.M.C.M. de Kok received funding from the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu). The funding source had no involvement in the study design, data collection, data analysis, interpretation of the data, writing of the report or the decision to submit the paper for publication."