Assessment of Knowledge and Attitude Towards Cervical Cancer Screening Among Female Students in Lead City University, Oyo State, Ibadan.
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2022-12
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Lead City University
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One of the 15 high-risk HPV kinds, which is linked to one of the more prevalent and recurrent infections of the lower genital tract, is referred to as the "major" cause of cervical cancer with an expected 311,000 fatalities and 570,000 new cases in 2018.It has been found that female students in low-income nations have a limited understanding of the disease and screening and that the knowledge among Nigerian university students was much worse. Sixth-generation health belief model (HBM) theory was applied. It is a conceptual framework that has been applied in numerous research on health behavior for the early diagnosis and prevention of disease26 the study design was cross-sectional. A self-administered questionnaire and a purposeful sampling method was used. The study included 230 female students between the ages of 16 and no older than 40. After the surveys were coded and entered, the data was input and analyzed using SPSS version 20 statistical software. The knowledge and attitude regarding cervical cancer screening were each described using a descriptive statistic, such as frequency or proportion. The study established a good knowledge towards cervical cancer screening (77%) while some show a fair knowledge of it (23%). The study reveals that the majority of female students have a good attitude toward cervical cancer screening (74%) while a minority have a poor attitude toward cervical cancer screening (26%).Furthermore, part of female students has undergone cervical cancer screening with a fair utilization recorded (68%) while some minorities are yet to have it done with a poor utilization been documented (32%).Moreso, there was a significant association with age, marital status, ethnicity, tertiary level of education, and exposure to sex for cervical cancer screening. There needs to be ongoing sensitization of the students to the disease.
Keywords: Knowledge, Attitude, Utilization, Significant association.
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Kate Turabian