Kadin sa?lik çalişanlarinin servi?kal kansere i?li?şki?n bi?lgi? ve tutumlarinin beli?rlenmesi?

Abstract

Aim: The study was performed descriptively to determine the knowledge and attitudes of female health workers (nurses, doctors, midwives) regarding cervical cancer. Material and Method: In this descriptive study, three forms including Individual Information Form, Cervical Cancer Risk Factors, Pap smear and HPV Information Form, Attitude Scale Towards Early Diagnosis of Cervical Cancer were used as data collection tools. The data were evaluated in computer environment by using the frequency distribution, Chi-Square test, Kruskal Wallis Analysis of Variance, the correlation analysis, and the significance test for the difference between two mean values. Results: %71.7, %17.4, %10.9 of the female health workers in the study were nurses, doctors, midwives, respectively and %68.4 of them was married. It was determined that %50.2 of female health workers had never had a gynecologic examination, and %70.4 of female health workers had never been screened with the Pap smear test. The difference between having a gynecologic examination and being screened with the Pap smear test (Form I) in female health workers according to age, marital status, education status, and occupation was found signficant statistically (p<0.05). The difference between total points that female health workers got from Cervical Cancer Risk Factors, Pap smear and HPV Information Form (Form II) according to education status, occupation, and the department they work was found signficant statistically (p<0.05). As a result of the scale which is performed so as to determine attitudes of female health workers towards early diagnosis of cervical cancer (Form III), the difference between total points that female health workers got from attitude scale towards early diagnosis of cervical cancer and female health workers' age, education status, having a gynecologic examination and being screened with the Pap smear test, getting and providing information about cervical cancer was found signficant statistically (p<0.05). Discussion: Cervical cancer knowledge and attitudes regarding female health workers is not a desirable level.