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Knowledge and Beliefs of Women about Cervical Cancer Prevention in Port Said City

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Last updated: 24 Dec 2024

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Community Health Nursing

Abstract

Background: Cervical cancer is the leading cause of death worldwide, especially in developing countries. Cervical cancer is a highly preventable and curable cancer compared with other types of cancer, if detected at an early stage. Aim: assess the knowledge and beliefs of women about cervical cancer prevention in Port Said City. Subjects and Method: A descriptive research design was utilized in this study at five gynecological and family planning clinics in primary health care centers within the city of Port Said. A multi- stage cluster sampling technique was used for 110 women. Two tools were used to gather the required data consisted of; Tool (I) women's knowledge structured interview questionnaire about cervical cancer, Tool (II) Health Belief Model Scale in addition to personal characteristics, and obstetric history of women. Results: The study revealed that 90.9% of the studied women had unsatisfactory level of total knowledge and 69.1% of them had low level of total beliefs about cervical cancer prevention. Conclusion: It can be concluded that the total women's knowledge were unsatisfactory and the total women's beliefs were low in all subscales of health belief model about cervical cancer prevention. Also, there was a highly statistically significant positive correlation between total women's knowledge and their total beliefs about cervical cancer. Recommendations: Implement preventive program based on a health belief model to increase women's knowledge and beliefs about cervical cancer prevention.

DOI

10.21608/pssjn.2024.300685.1313

Keywords

Cervical Cancer, health belief model, Knowledge, Preventive program, Women

Authors

First Name

Shaymaa

Last Name

Zohairy

MiddleName

Aly

Affiliation

Family and community health nursing,faculty of nursing, Port said university

Email

shaymaa.zohairy@gmail.com

City

Port said

Orcid

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First Name

Gehad

Last Name

abuelmaaty

MiddleName

Mohamed

Affiliation

Family and Community Health Nursing, faculty of nursing port-said University

Email

mgehad98@yahoo.com

City

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Orcid

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First Name

maha

Last Name

mohamed

MiddleName

moussa

Affiliation

family and community health nursing faculty of nursing port-said university

Email

mahamoussa10@yahoo.com

City

port said

Orcid

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First Name

Nahed

Last Name

Adel-Salam

MiddleName

Abdel-azeem

Affiliation

Family and Community health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Port Said University

Email

bardes18@gmail.com

City

port said

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Volume

11

Article Issue

3

Related Issue

50481

Issue Date

2024-09-01

Receive Date

2024-07-08

Publish Date

2024-09-30

Page Start

191

Page End

218

Print ISSN

2356-8658

Online ISSN

2682-3241

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https://pssjn.journals.ekb.eg/article_383062.html

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866

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Publication Title

Port Said Scientific Journal of Nursing

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https://pssjn.journals.ekb.eg/

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Knowledge and Beliefs of Women about Cervical Cancer Prevention in Port Said City

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24 Dec 2024