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Journal Article
Cervical cancer screening adoption behaviours among Nigerian women in academics: using a health belief model
2024
Overview
Background
Cervical Cancer is the commonest and one of the leading causes of death from cancer among women in developing countries. Screening has been shown to reduce morbidity and mortality from the illness, yet its uptake is low. This study investigated the pattern of utilization and preferences relating to the adoption of cervical screening among female postgraduate students at the University of Ibadan.
Methodology
The study was a descriptive cross-sectional survey involving the use of a multi-stage sampling technique to recruit 372 women undergoing postgraduate studies (20–52 years with a mean age of 27.3 ± 5.4) at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. A pretested semi-structured, self-administered questionnaire was used for data collection and the coded data were analyzed using SPSS (version 20).
Results
Only 4.0% of the respondents had been screened for Cervical Cancer at the time of study while 86.3% expressed their desire to be screened if given the opportunity. Most participants showed a favourable perception with 70.4% disagreeing that cervical cancer is a mild disease and 50.5% agreeing that the benefits of cervical cancer screening outweigh the stress of the screening procedure. Female doctors (73.2%) topped the list of health professionals’ respondents who preferred to conduct the screening. A majority (70.7%) of the respondents preferred these screenings to be done during antenatal clinic visits. There is a significant association (
p
.value = 0.0007) between cervical cancer screening behaviors and sexual activity among women.
Conclusion
Poor utilization of Cervical cancer screening services is seen among Nigerian women undergoing postgraduate studies but a high willingness to utilize the services in the future with consideration to professionals delivering the service and specific locations where it can be obtained. The poor rate of cervical cancer screening from the study depicts the large extent to which cases of this cancer go without being detected till the advanced stages. Rolling out more screening strategies that will explore different service delivery points/preferences as highlighted in the study is needed for larger coverage.
Publisher
BioMed Central,BioMed Central Ltd,Springer Nature B.V,BMC
Subject
/ Age
/ Analysis
/ Cancer
/ Early Detection of Cancer - psychology
/ Early Detection of Cancer - statistics & numerical data
/ Female
/ Females
/ Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
/ Humans
/ LDCs
/ Mass Screening - statistics & numerical data
/ Medicine
/ Nigeria
/ Patient Acceptance of Health Care - psychology
/ Patient Acceptance of Health Care - statistics & numerical data
/ Sexually transmitted diseases
/ STD
/ Students - statistics & numerical data
/ Surveys
/ Uterine Cervical Neoplasms - diagnosis
/ Women
