Abstract
This study was carried out in Abua Central in Abua/Odual Local Government Area, Rivers State on the awareness and practice of cervical cancer screening among women aged 30 - 60 years. The objective of the study was to determine the awareness level of women of Abua central on cervical cancer screening and the practice, and the objectives were translated into research questions. Literature was reviewed, a purposeful sampling technique was used to select a sample size of (50) fifty from a target population of (200) two hundred women, the instrument used for the study was a self-developed questionnaire. The questionnaire consisted of two sections A and B, section A consisted of personal data’s and section B consisted of questions on the variables used to answer the research questions. The questionnaire a design of four Likert scales of agree, strongly agree, disagree and strongly disagree was used. Fifty (50) questionnaire was administered face to face and the (50) fifty were retrieved. Percentage tables, bar chart, pie chart were used to represent the finding of the study while the chi-square X2 statistical tool was used to test the hypothesis at an alpha level of 0.05 significance, from the research analysis chi-square value of 15.2 degree of freedom at 6 and critical value 12.592 was gotten. After analysis of data, the result showed that women of Abua central are aware of cervical cancer screening but they do not participate in the screening programme. The implication for nursing is that nurses should work with other health teams in stressing the importance of cervical cancer screening. Based on the findings of the study, recommendations were made: women should be health educated on the importance of cervical cancer screening also government should provide cervical cancer screening units in a close-by hospital.
Highlights
Most of the time, early cervical cancer has no symptoms since it is a slowgrowing cancer that may not have symptoms at the early stage but can be Cervical Screening is still a controversial issue that provokes a wide detected through regular Papanicolaou test or cervical screening
1.6 Scope of the study This study focused on women in Abua Central
The respondent were women of Non of the respondent strongly agreed or agreed that cervical cancer screening Abua Central in Abua Local Government Area of Rivers State, Nigeria. is against their religious belief 40 (80%) strongly disagreed while 10 (20%) The demographic data showed that the age group 30 - 40 year had the disagreed
Summary
Early cervical cancer has no symptoms since it is a slowgrowing cancer that may not have symptoms at the early stage but can be Cervical Screening is still a controversial issue that provokes a wide detected through regular Papanicolaou test or cervical screening Medical advances have shown that cervical procedure in which cells are scraped from the cervix and placed on the cancer if diagnosed sufficiently early is potentially curable. This microscope to detect cell changes indicating the presence of cancer). A potentially important strategy in reducing cervical cancer is the use of screening to achieve earlier detection. Diagnosis usually results in Most cases of cervical cancer occurring in Africa are detected very late treatment before metastasis and signifies a better outcome of mainly due to poor access to screening facilities and lack of awareness of management; cervical cancer screening involves testing of apparently the importance of cervical cancer screening (Chukwukere, 2012). This is why it is very important that women continue to could lead to cancer if left untreated
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