The Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude and Intention to use Cervical cancer Screening and its Collerates among Army Women in Ethiopia
Creators: name: Kahasay, Belachew
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2016

description: Background: Cervical cancer is a global public health problem &amp; it is the 4th leading cause cancer morbidity and mortality. Almost 70% of the global burden failed in developing counties. In Ethiopia cervical cancer is the 2nd leading cause of cancer mortality. Cervical cancer screening is effective prevention method can avert &gt;80% morbidity and mortality. However, globally a billion of women missed this opportunity. Poor utilization of cervical cancer screening was the prominent problem in developing countries. In Ethiopia cervical cancer screening coverage was 0.6%. Low level of knowledge, negative attitude and low intention towards cervical cancer screening were among many obstacles that hider the successfulness of cervical cancer screening on which this study aimed. Objectives: This study were measure level of knowledge, determine attitude, assess intention to use cervical cancer screening and identify correlates of intention among army women of Ethiopia. Methods: A cross sectional study design was used to assess knowledge, attitude, intention towards cervical cancer screening and its correlates among army women of Ethiopia on April, 2016. Twenty one posts were included in this study. Single population proportion formula was used to determine the sample size &amp; a total of 423 samples were taken. Simple random sampling technique was used to select study participants. A self administered questionnaire was used to collect the data. Data was entered to EPI-info -7 &amp; exported into STATA-12 for analysis. Bi-varate analysis was done to find out crude association between independent &amp; outcome variable. Finally logistic regression analysis was carried out for those variables had association at &lt;0.05 level of significance at bi-variate analysis. Results: This study showed that 288(54.00%), 161(38.00%), and 34(8.00%) had poor, satisfactory and good knowledge about cervical cancer screening respectively. Majority, 227(53.7%) had negative attitude towards cervical cancer screening. More than half, 218(56.6%) of respondents had no intention to use cervical cancer screening. Military duty (infantry AOR=2.19(1.13, 4.23), Office work AOR=1.95(1.09, 3.51)), monthly income &gt;1600EBirr AOR=2.84(1.51, 5.32) and army women who had positive attitude towards cervical cancer screening AOR=2.16(1.35, 3.44) had positive association with intention to use cervical cancer screening. Conclusion and Recommendations: Army women had lack of knowledge, negative Attitude poor intention to cervical cancer screening. And military duty, monthly income and positive attitude were factors had positive association with intention to use cervical cancer screening. Defense Health main command should educate army women about the importance of cervical cancer screening. Promote cervical cancer screening through counseling as well as institution-based interventions. Attention should be given to army women working in industries and army women with low monthly income. Farther study would be needed on the prevalence and quality of services.