Department of Pharmacy, School of Health Sciences, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia.
HIV and Women's Health Research Group, University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia.
Nurs Open. 2023 Apr;10(4):2132-2141. doi: 10.1002/nop2.1460. Epub 2022 Nov 9.
To explore the knowledge, attitude and practices of cervical cancer screening among HIV-infected women in public health facilities in Lusaka, Zambia.
Cross-sectional study.
The study was conducted from 1st January 2020 to 28th February 2020. We used a structured questionnaire for data collection. The Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) was used to analyse relationships among latent variables (knowledge, attitude and practice).
The overall knowledge, attitude, and practice scores of cervical cancer screening among women living with HIV were 6.86/11 (62.4%), 6.41/7 (91.6%) and 2.92/8 (36.5%), respectively. Overall, knowledge was positively and significantly associated with attitude (r = .53, p < .001) and practice (r = .38, p < 0.001). Additionally, attitude and practice were significantly associated (r = 0.29, p < .001). Our findings support the reinforcement of current public health interventional programmes to improve the knowledge about cervical cancer and screening uptake.
探讨赞比亚卢萨卡公立卫生机构中 HIV 感染者对宫颈癌筛查的知识、态度和实践。
横断面研究。
本研究于 2020 年 1 月 1 日至 2 月 28 日进行。我们使用结构化问卷收集数据。结构方程模型(SEM)用于分析潜在变量(知识、态度和实践)之间的关系。
HIV 感染者的宫颈癌筛查总体知识、态度和实践评分分别为 6.86/11(62.4%)、6.41/7(91.6%)和 2.92/8(36.5%)。总体而言,知识与态度(r =.53,p <.001)和实践(r =.38,p <.001)呈正相关且显著相关。此外,态度和实践之间也存在显著相关性(r = 0.29,p <.001)。我们的研究结果支持加强当前的公共卫生干预计划,以提高对宫颈癌和筛查的认知。