Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice on Cervical Cancer Screening and Associated Factors Among Women Aged 15–49 Years in Adigrat Town, Northern Ethiopia, 2019: A Community-Based Cross-Sectional Study

Tsegay, Abreha; Araya, Tesfalem; Amare, Kahsay; Fisseha, Girmatsion; Tsadik,

doi:10.2147/ijwh.s261204

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“…Hadiya zone, Southern Ethiopia (53.7%). 31 Similarly, more than half of women had favorable attitude toward cervical cancer screening and this finding was comparable to a study done in Adigrat, Northern Ethiopia 30 and higher than that of a study conducted in Wolayita zone hospitals, Southern Ethiopia (45.5%). 29 The variations in the study findings might be due to contextual differences, difference in period of assessments, and knowledge and attitude components considered in the analysis.…”

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“…This finding was better than that of a study conducted in Nigeria, 23,24 India, 25 and Nepal 26 and lower than that of a study conducted in Zimbabwe 27 and Democratic People's Republic of Korea. 28 The finding was also better than that of a study conducted in Adigrat town, Northern Ethiopia (46.4%), Wolayita zone hospitals (43.1%), and Gondar town, Northern Ethiopia (19.9%) 15,29,30 and comparable to a study conducted in…”

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Women’s Satisfaction with Cervical Cancer Screening Services and Associated Factors in Maternal Health Clinics of Jimma Town Public Health Facilities, Southwest Ethiopia

Atnafu

Daka

Debela

et al. 2021

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Background: Despite the existence of proven interventions for cervical cancer, low coverage and uptake of existing screening and treatment services remains the main challenge to prevention and control of cervical cancer in developing countries. This study aimed to assess women's satisfaction with cervical cancer screening services and factors associated with it in public health facilities of Jimma town, Southwest Ethiopia. Methods: A facility-based cross-sectional study was conducted from March 20 to May 20, 2020. All women aged between 30 and 49 years who visited health facilities during the data collection period were interviewed consecutively. Composite variables were computed from existing data for satisfaction, knowledge, and attitude. A 95% confidence interval was constructed for all outcome variables and multivariate logistic regression was used to identify predictors of satisfaction. Results: Out of 205 interviewed women, 41% (95% CI: 34-47) were satisfied with cervical cancer screening services. One-hundred and seventeen (57%, 95% CI: 50-64) women had good comprehensive knowledge of cervical cancer screening and 121 (59%, 95% CI: 52-66) had favorable attitude. Satisfaction with cervical cancer screening service was statistically associated with occupational status, religion, perceived length of waiting time to see a provider, and knowledge of cervical cancer. Conclusion: Satisfaction with cervical cancer screening services was low in public health facilities of Jimma town. Slightly more than half of women had good knowledge and favorable attitude regarding cervical cancer screening. Among the clinical factors, only perceived length of waiting time to see a provider and women's knowledge of cervical cancer were statistically associated with satisfaction with screening services. Therefore, efforts should be made to improve level of satisfaction, knowledge and attitude of women toward cervical cancer and screening services.

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Women’s Satisfaction with Cervical Cancer Screening Services and Associated Factors in Maternal Health Clinics of Jimma Town Public Health Facilities, Southwest Ethiopia

Atnafu

Daka

Debela

et al. 2021

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“…These associations have also been reported in other local and international studies. 21 , 30 , 31 These findings highlight the importance of implementing a well-structured national awareness program regarding cervical cancer and screening tests in order to promote screening uptake and improve public health by detecting early signs and symptoms of cervical cancer among Omani women.…”

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Cervical Cancer-related Knowledge and Practice among Omani Women Attending a Family Medicine and Public Health Clinic

Kalbani¹,

Kindi²,

Basami³

et al. 2022

Oman Med J

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Objectives: This study aimed to assess knowledge, attitudes, and screening practices related to cervical cancer and Papanicolaou (Pap) smear testing among Omani women who were visitors to a family medicine and public health (FMPH) clinic. A secondary aim was to correlate the above with the subjects’ sociodemographic characteristics. Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out from February 2020 to April 2021 at the FMPH Clinic of Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Muscat. A self-administered questionnaire assessed the participants’ sociodemographic characteristics, cervical cancer-related risk factors, and their knowledge, attitudes, and practices related to cervical cancer, cervical cancer screening, and Pap smear testing. Results: The participants were 285 Omani women. The vast majority (256/285; 89.8%) had heard about cervical cancer and 208/285 (73.0%) about Pap smear testing. Only 32/285 (11.2%) and 179/285 (62.8%) demonstrated high levels of knowledge in the respective topics. Cervical cancer knowledge scores were associated with education level (p =0.039), whether the qualification was related to healthcare (p < 0.001), and the nature of employment (p =0.033). Pap smear knowledge scores were also associated with age (p =0.001), education level (p < 0.001), whether the qualification was related to healthcare (p < 0.001), the nature of employment (p =0.001), and number of children (p =0.001). Most women were aware of the availability of Pap smear testing in Oman (206/285; 72.3%) and 114/285 (40.0%) had previously undergone this test. Among those who had never undertaken Pap smear testing (171/285; 60.0%), many were willing to do so in the future (103/171; 60.2%). Conclusions: Our results provide an increased understanding of Omani women’s level of perceptions, attitudes, and screening practices related to cervical cancer. These findings will help develop strategies to improve Omani women’s knowledge of cervical cancer symptoms and screening facilities and promote optimum utilization of the available screening services.

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“…The study done in Cameroon as well as Medeiros, and South Africa reported that having multiple sexual partners was the risk factor for cervical cancer, 54.4%, 63%, and 22%, respectively (Nkfusai et al, 2019;Tsegay et al, 2019). Also, from the systematic review conducted in 2021 by Chua and coworkers (Chua et al, 2021) found that the top barriers to getting cervical cancer screening were embarrassment, busyness, and poor knowledge and top facilitators include age, advice from healthcare worker, and educational status.…”

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Knowledge Attitude and Practice of Postpartum Parturients Towards Cervical Cancer and Cervical Cancer Screening; Is Lack of Knowledge the Misleading Scapegoat?

Kanjanawilai

Wisarnsirirak

Chanthasenanont

et al. 2022

Asian Pac J Cancer Prev

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Providing the most recent information by World Health Organization, cervical cancer is by far the fourth most prevalent cancer in women with an incidence of 13.3% or around 604,000 new cases and 342 000 deaths in 2020. Reports also revealed that low-to middle-income countries represent 90% of the new cases and deaths worldwide in 2020 (Sung et al., 2021;Sung et al., 2021).Correspondingly, National Cancer Institute of Thailand (NCI) revealed that cervical cancer remains the prominent type of neoplasm in Thai female that responsible for 11.1% of new cancer cases in Thai women (Ministry of Public Health Thailand., 2020).With elaborated recognition, it had been proven for over 50 years that cervical cancer is sexually transmitted cancer caused by human papillomavirus (HPV) (Anderson et al., 2020). Papanicolaou smear (Pap smear) and visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA) are offered free of charge in Thailand (Insamran et al., 2020).Despite justified efficacy and accessibility of the test,

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Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice on Cervical Cancer Screening and Associated Factors Among Women Aged 15–49 Years in Adigrat Town, Northern Ethiopia, 2019: A Community-Based Cross-Sectional Study

Cited by 33 publications

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Women’s Satisfaction with Cervical Cancer Screening Services and Associated Factors in Maternal Health Clinics of Jimma Town Public Health Facilities, Southwest Ethiopia

Women’s Satisfaction with Cervical Cancer Screening Services and Associated Factors in Maternal Health Clinics of Jimma Town Public Health Facilities, Southwest Ethiopia

Cervical Cancer-related Knowledge and Practice among Omani Women Attending a Family Medicine and Public Health Clinic

Knowledge Attitude and Practice of Postpartum Parturients Towards Cervical Cancer and Cervical Cancer Screening; Is Lack of Knowledge the Misleading Scapegoat?

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