Summary description of included studies
| Characteristic | Articles* |
| Region | |
| Africa: Cameroon, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, South Africa and Uganda | 12 |
| Asia: China, Japan, Laos, Malaysia and Thailand | 12 |
| Europe: France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland and UK | 13 |
| Americas: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Puerto Rico and USA | 32 |
| Australia/Pacific | 2 |
| Multiple regions (India, Nicaragua and Uganda) | 1 |
| Populations (not mutually exclusive) | |
| Women from the general population | 63 |
| Never-screened or underscreened | 14 |
| Women living with HIV | 3 |
| Female sex workers | 1 |
| Women experiencing homelessnes | 1 |
| Adolescent girls and young women | 3 |
| Sexual and gender minorities | 2 |
| Study design | |
| Qualitative | 9 |
| Quantitative | 58 |
| Mixed methods or multimethod | 5 |
| Specimen collection device and methods | |
| Swab | 23 |
| Brush | 20 |
| Lavage | 3 |
| Labial padette | 1 |
| Tampon† | 5 |
| Multiple devices | 7 |
| Urine‡ | 2 |
| Unspecified | 11 |
| Setting for self-sampling | |
| Actual use at clinic | 33 |
| Actual use in workplace | 1 |
| Actual use at home | 21 |
| Actual use in community setting | 4 |
| Unspecified | 13 |
| Total | 72 |
*The number of studies within each category is not mutually exclusive.
†All five studies compared tampon with other self-sampling devices.32 34 49–51
‡One study included both urine self-sampling and self-sampling using a cervical swab.66