If you remember, can you tell me about how you first found out about cervical screening or smear tests?
If required: what were your thoughts and feelings about smear tests when you found out about them?
Can you tell me about your experiences of being asked or told to come in for a smear?
If required: Do you remember a doctor, nurse or receptionist talking to you about smears? What was that like? What was the doctor like?
[If required] Have you ever had a smear? Tell me about that/what deciding not to have a smear was like?
Tell me about your first experience of having a smear test.
If required: What did you think of/ how did you feel towards the person who took your smear?
Did you understand why you were having a smear? How did you feel before/during/afterwards?
How might it have gone differently? What would have made it a less positive/negative experience? How might that affect how you felt afterwards?
Have you ever talked about smear tests with your friends, partner, family or whanau? Tell me about those conversations.
If required: For example, if you ever talked with your friends about the experience of having a smear, if you ever talked to family or friends about whether or not to have a smear, if you ever talked to someone about what smear testing is for.
What were those conversations like for you?
Tell me about how you feel about smear testing.
If required: What do you think about smear testing? How important do you think it is?
How positive or negative do you feel about smear tests?
How would you feel before a smear test [do you think]? What about during? What about after?
Tell me about the last time you went for a smear [if not already discussed]
If required: How did you feel before/during/after?
Was this similar to how you felt towards your first/other smears?
How did it make you feel about the next time you are asked to come in for a smear?
What is your understanding of what smear tests are for?
If required: What do you think the purpose of smear tests is? What do you think an abnormal/unusual result means?
What do you know about HPV (sometimes called human papillomavirus)? [if they have mentioned HPV]
Tell me about your understanding or experience of HPV? Where did you find out about it? Do you feel at risk of HPV?
Where do you think it come from?
What would you think if someone told you they had HPV? What about if you were told you had HPV?
What do you understand about the HPV immunisation and what it does? Were you offered the immunisation?
Tell me about what that was like?
Did you feel like you understood what it was?
Did you feel like you were able to decide for yourself whether to have it?
What did you think about people who didn’t have the immunisation? What about girls who did?
What is your understanding about cervical cancer?
If required: What do you think causes cervical cancer? How do you feel about people who have cervical cancer?
What do you think about getting an abnormal/unusual result from a smear – that is, being asked to come in for further tests?
What do you think causes abnormal smears?
happened to you? Do you/did you think beforehand that it was something that could happen to you?
Has it happened to someone you know? What did you think/how would you feel?
How do you feel about [other] people who do not go to have smear tests?
If required: If someone told you they didn’t go for smear tests, what would you think? How do you think other people feel about people not going for smear tests?
How do you think doctors feel about people not going for smear tests?
If you decided not to go for smears, how do you think some of the people in your life would react? OR When you decided not to go for smears, what were some of the reactions from your doctors/anyone in your life that you told?
What do you think are some of the reasons why someone might decide not to go for a smear?
How do you think your upbringing has influenced how you feel about smears?
Like your experience with your family? How might someone from a different family feel differently?
What about cultural factors? How do you think someone from a different culture might feel different?
And what about any religious beliefs? And what about someone from another religion?
For you, where do you think smear testing fits in with other health practices you do – do you think of it as part of sexual health or as taking care of your health generally?
How might that link in to how you feel about smear testing?
Now I just need to ask some background questions. You will be completely anonymous in the research, I just need to give some general information on participants.
How old are you?
What ethnicities do you identify as?