Knowledge, Practice and Barriers to Cervical Cancer Screening, Prevention and Treatment among women in Yagba West Local Government Area, Kogi State
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2022-12
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Lead City University
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Cervical cancer is the most common genital cancer and one of leading causes of death among women. Fortunately, this cancer can be prevented through screening for pre-malignant lesions but this is rarely provided and hardly utilized. An adopted cross-sectional study design was used for this study, where 417 respondents were recruited for the sample size. The sampling techniques that was used for this study was two stage cluster sampling. The data collected using structured questionnaire was analyzed using SPSS; the findings showed that majority of women were mis-concepted about cervical cancer screening, prevention and treatment which prevented them from practicing cervical cancer screening. The finding shows that out of four hundred and seventeen (417) respondents that were recruited 44(10.6%) are between the age of 18 – 20 years, 100(24%) are between the age of 21 -26 years, 232(55.6%) are between the age of 27 – 35 years, while 41(9.6%) are between the age of 36 - 55 years. The study shows that 118(28.3%) are single, 248 (59.5%) are married, while 51(12.2%) were previously married. The finding also shows that only 33.20% of the respondent has good knowledge of cervical cancer while 66.80% have poor knowledge. For the factors influencing good knowledge on cervical cancer, the result shows that respondent between 18 – 20 years are 80 times more likely to have poor knowledge of cervical screening compared to their counterpart who are between the age of 36 -55 years at (3.187, 2025.872 CI). Recommendations were made that the health workers should create friendly environment where every woman will be free without any fear for cervical cancer screening and treatment. Women should be educated about the treatment options for pre-cancer lesions. Health workers should educate the appropriate authority on HPV and how the women can be immunized to prevent the occurrence of cervical cancer.
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Keywords: Cancer, Screening, Pre-malignant, Human Papilloma Vaccine, Yagba West
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Kate Turabian