Abstract
Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer among Indian women; around 20% of cervical cancer cases all over the world are from India. Even though amelioration in the health care system had progressed compared to earlier days, the mortality due to cervical cancer in developing countries like India. The study focuses on the awareness, prevention and screening of cervical cancer in rural women of Kancheepuram district. The cross-sectional study with 416 women using multistage sampling method was conducted, the tool was Cervical cancer awareness measure toolkit version 2.1 with altered changes in the socio-demographic section with B. G Prasad scale for socio-economic status was included accordingly to the rural area. The awareness about the term cervical cancer was 43.2% (180/416). Still, the awareness about the term human papillomavirus (HPV) was only 7.1%(32/416), of the 416 women who participated in the study only 15.5% of women were screened for cervical cancer at least once in their lifetime, Less than 50% of the women participants were aware of cervical cancer, hence planned health education with behavioural change program is needed for promoting the knowledge and screening of cervical cancer in rural areas of Kancheepuram district.
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