Awodele O, Adeyomoye A A A, Awodele D F, Kwashi V, Awodele I O, Dolapo D C
Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria.
J Cancer Educ. 2011 Sep;26(3):497-504. doi: 10.1007/s13187-010-0187-6.
Cancer of the cervix is the commonest genital tract malignancy in the female, and it has been ranked second to breast cancer. It has positive association with infection of human papillomavirus. Cervical cancer incidence and mortality have declined substantially in western countries following the introduction of screening programmes. This present study investigated the knowledge, attitude and practice of nurses in Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) towards cervical cancer screening as they are important health personnel that are suppose to educate women on the need for cervical cancer screening. The study is a descriptive cross-sectional survey of the knowledge, attitude and practice of 200 nurses in LUTH towards cervical cancer screening. The results obtained showed that 99% of the respondents were aware of cervical cancer and that 92% of the respondents were also aware of the causative organism of cervical cancer (human papillomavirus). Their major sources of information were through electronic media (43.9%) and health professionals (37.4%). Furthermore, the respondents were quiet aware of Pap smear (91%) as one of the screening techniques of cervical cancer and had good attitudes (89%) towards Pap smear, but most of them had never done it before. The study further revealed that majority of the respondents did not know colposcopy as one of the screening techniques for cervical cancer. Finally, it has been made known from this study that nurses have good knowledge of cervical cancer but have limited understanding of the types of cervical cancer screening techniques and poor disposition towards undergoing cervical cancer screening. It may thus be recommended that institutions should periodically organise seminars and training for health personnel especially the nurses which form a group of professionals that should give health education to women about cervical cancer. This training may be done as part of the orientation programme to newly employed staff.
宫颈癌是女性最常见的生殖道恶性肿瘤，其发病率仅次于乳腺癌。它与人乳头瘤病毒感染呈正相关。在西方国家，随着筛查项目的推行，宫颈癌的发病率和死亡率大幅下降。本研究调查了拉各斯大学教学医院（LUTH）护士对宫颈癌筛查的知识、态度和实践情况，因为她们是重要的卫生人员，理应向女性宣传宫颈癌筛查的必要性。该研究是对LUTH 200名护士关于宫颈癌筛查的知识、态度和实践的描述性横断面调查。所得结果显示，99%的受访者知晓宫颈癌，92%的受访者也知晓宫颈癌的致病病原体（人乳头瘤病毒）。她们的主要信息来源是电子媒体（43.9%）和卫生专业人员（37.4%）。此外，受访者很清楚巴氏涂片检查（91%）是宫颈癌的筛查技术之一，并且对巴氏涂片检查态度良好（89%），但她们中的大多数人以前从未做过。该研究还表明，大多数受访者不知道阴道镜检查是宫颈癌的筛查技术之一。最后，从这项研究可知，护士对宫颈癌有很好的了解，但对宫颈癌筛查技术的类型了解有限，且接受宫颈癌筛查的意愿不高。因此，建议各机构应定期为卫生人员，尤其是护士组织研讨会和培训，护士作为专业人员群体，应为女性提供有关宫颈癌的健康教育。这种培训可以作为新员工入职培训计划的一部分来进行。
