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Review Question IV
the potential gap between women’s perception of
benefit and these measures. Although part of this
review question included a question about what
outcomes women would want from advocacy and
other interventions, we did not find any qualitative
studies that addressed this.
Most studies did not specifically assess potential
harm from the interventions, although worse
outcomes in intervention groups compared with
controls would have been an important indication
of harm. The only examples of this from our review
are two studies, one evaluating the effectiveness
of advocacy, 121 the other looking at individual
psychological therapy, 142 which found that women
in the intervention arms experienced more bodily
pain. The types of harm that would not have been
detected unless the investigators specifically tried
to measure them are more akin to adverse events
in pharmacological trials. In the qualitative studies
reviewed in Chapter 5, women cited breaches of
confidentiality, stigmatisation and judgments by
health-care providers as actual or potential harms
of screening.