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- Title
Câncer cervico-uterino: conhecimento, atitude e prática sobre o exame de prevenção.
- Authors
Ferreira de Melo, Ester Marcele; Pereira Linhares, Francisca Márcia; Marques da Silva, Telma; Pontes, Cleide Maria; da Silva Santos, Alessandro Henrique; Costa de Oliveira, Sheyla
- Abstract
Objective: to evaluate the knowledge, attitude and practice of women on the cervical-uterine cancer screening and to investigate their association with sociodemographic variables. Method: a cross-sectional study, carried out from July to September 2015, with 500 women enrolled in the Basic Health Units of the Health District V, of the city of Recife-PE. For data collection, a semi-structured form was used. In statistical analysis, the Chi-square test and Fisher's Exact Test were applied and, in the multivariate analysis, the Poisson model and Wald statistic. Results: the prevalence of adequate knowledge, attitude and practice was 35.2%, 98% and 70.6%, respectively. Adequate knowledge was associated with having no children, having a family income of two minimum wages and Spiritist/Afro-Brazilian religion. Conclusion: women carry out the examination, deem it necessary, but do not have adequate knowledge, which demonstrates the need for educational actions by nurses and other health professionals.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; CERVIX uteri tumors; TUMOR prevention; CHI-squared test; FISHER exact test; HEALTH attitudes; INTERVIEWING; RESEARCH methodology; MULTIVARIATE analysis; PAP test; POISSON distribution; PSYCHOLOGY of women; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; CROSS-sectional method; HEALTH literacy; EARLY detection of cancer
- Publication
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2019, Vol 72, p30
- ISSN
0034-7167
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/0034-7167-2017-0645