[PDF] Top 20 Study on knowledge and practice of screening for cervical cancer among women from rural communities in central Kerala, India

... 24 of primiparous and 2 of 53 multipara knew about HPV. The p value was 0.027 (Table 6). regarding awareness to preventive vaccine was only in 23 primipara out of 156 and 2 of 53 multi para. the p value calculated was ... See full document

... this study, knowledge, attitude and practice towards cervical cancer and its screening were ...The study found that women were not aware of cervical ... See full document

... of knowledge, attitude, and practices of women of reproductive age of 20 - 70 years on their understanding of the risk factors of cervical cancer, its early detection, and ...cross-sectional ... See full document

... and practice of the screening for cervical cancer was very poor in rural population as well as in health providers in the ...of cervical cancer. Large number of ... See full document

... a study in Nigeria by Gharoro and Ikeanyi (2012) among female health workers showed that their practice of cervical cancer screening was very low and there was a wide gap between ... See full document

... and cervical cancer. Many women expressed the belief that they were the same thing, and described them ...expressed knowledge of the latency period between HPV infection and development of ... See full document

... that women aged between 36 and 60 years were more likely to be affected by cervical cancer than ...that women aged between 26 and 35, 19 and 25, 15 and 18, and ...by cervical ... See full document

... the study having heard of the Human Papilloma virus (HPV) one of the principal agents of this disease which was similar to another study conducted among nursing staff in India by Jain et al, ... See full document

... choose from, and few respondents chose “other”. This was necessary as the study was conducted in a predominately Fante urban ...the study participants in their ...had knowledge or lacked ... See full document

... 2. From the calculation, the sample size was found to be ...eligible women meeting the inclusion criteria ...obtained from CMC, Institutional Review ...taken from women for ... See full document

... stage, cancer screening camps were conducted at three places namely the primary health center at Karindalam and two of their sub centers at Parappa and ...demography, knowledge of cancer ... See full document

... present study, 9.5% of women had undergone ...of screening test and absence of symptoms were the most common reasons for not undergoing ...a study done in ...and knowledge, attitude and ... See full document

... our study were reluctant to undergo testing due to their fear of pain and their regarding testing as a complicated ...individual’s knowledge and attitudes about the causes and risk factors of a particular ... See full document

... This study was conducted to assess the knowledge, atti- tude and practice of cervical cancer screening and its associated factors among female students at Wollega ...about ... See full document

... samples from each woman. In this pilot study, the initial screening for high risk HPV DNA was done by Hybrid Capture 2 with positive samples tested for HPV genotype using a PCR-based line blot ... See full document

... drawn from a sin- gle, refugee-friendly clinic, so they are not largely gen- eralizable to other settings; however, this might reflect a strength of this particular model of ...Finally, women had up to ... See full document

... on cervical cancer screening, they include the “age difference”, “cultural beliefs”, “myths and misconceptions about cervical cancer screening”, “language barrier”, “illiteracy”, ... See full document

... this study it was noted that all precancerous lesions, LSIL ...and Kerala also show that epithelial abnormalities increase with increase in age, especially in postmenopausal age group or even after ...his ... See full document

... the study and assurances of confidentiality were fully explained to the participants and research assistants who assisted in data collection and the participants were asked for their voluntary participation before ... See full document

... by cervical screening. It is also one type of cancer that can be prevented and cured if detected early enough ...time from a prema- lignant lesion to frank cancer of the cervix affords ... See full document