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- Title
Family Physicians' Knowledge of Risk Factors for Cervical Cancer.
- Authors
Ruffin IV, Mack T.
- Abstract
The article determines family physicians' knowledge of risk factors for cervical cancer and perceived importance of risk in screening women in the U.S. The Pap smear has rapidly evolved through a broad spectrum of techniques and protocols, with wide acceptance by physicians, since its introduction as a vaginal pool aspiration. Physicians have used a woman's risk for cervical cancer to guide the initiation and frequency of a Pap smear. For the study, the self-administered questionnaire was mailed to 5000 active members of the American Academy of Family Physicians. The format for accessing physicians' knowledge of risk factors for cervical cancer was a statement that the medical literature suggests there are as many as 10 identifiable risk factors. The article informs that the family physicians have a limited understanding of the risk factors for cervical cancer. It further adds that this was the case regardless of the age, gender, training, race, geographic location, or practice setting of the responding physician.
- Subjects
CANCER risk factors; PHYSICIANS; CERVICAL cancer; CANCER patients; WOMEN'S health; DISEASES in women
- Publication
Journal of Women's Health (15409996), 2003, Vol 12, Issue 6, p561
- ISSN
1540-9996
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1089/154099903768248267