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American Journal of Advances in Nursing Research

Volume 11, Issue 2, 2024
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American Journal of Advances in Nursing Research
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XXX-XXXX (Print), 2349 – 0691 (Online)
Frequency
bi-annual
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Abstract
Title
ATTITUDE OF WOMEN REGARDING PREVENTION OF CERVICAL CANCER IN A SELECTED COMMUNITY OF KERALA
Author
Jisa George T and Kiran Batra
Email
jisagt@gmail.com
keyword
Attitude; Cervical Cancer; Prevention; Rural.
Abstract
Cervical cancer is the leading cause of mortality and morbidity among women in developing countries like India. Early detection by appropriate screening strategies is an important tool for the prevention of cervical cancer. Various studies reported that lack of knowledge and negative attitude as barriers to cervical cancer screening. Present study conducted with an aim to identify beliefs and attitude of women on prevention of cervical cancer in a selected rural community of Kerala, India. A descriptive cross sectional survey has been conducted in a selected rural community of Kerala by recruiting 419 women in the age group of 30-60 years of age. Non probability purposive sampling technique was adopted for the study. Sociodemographic data sheet and attitude assessment likert scale were used to collect data. Collected data was analyzed by Statistical Package for social sciences (SPSS) version 20 using appropriate descriptive and inferential statistics. Most of the subjects 307(73.3%) had unfavourable attitude, 110 (26.3%) had moderately favourable attitude and only 0.5% had favourable attitude towards prevention of cervical cancer. Significant association was found between attitude of women on prevention cervical cancer with education (p<0.001), age (p=0.036), age at the time of marriage (p<0.001), number of pregnancies (p<0.001) and number of children (p=0.048). Study identified many undesirable beliefs and views related to prevention of cervical cancer. So more need based health education programmes targeting the eligible women should be developed to improve cervical cancer screening behavior.
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