Chadha Lisa, Sharma Poonam, Bhide Neeta, Arya Inu
Nursing Tutor, College of Nursing, AIIMS, Vijaypur, Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
Mental Health Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, SGT University, Gurugram, Haryana, India.
J Educ Health Promot. 2025 Jul 4;14:268. doi: 10.4103/jehp.jehp_1010_24. eCollection 2025.
Despite the presence of screening and effective vaccines, cervical cancer continues to rank among the most prevalent cancers in India. Perimenopausal women commonly lack awareness and hold a pessimistic attitude toward the disease. The study to evaluate the impact of opportunistic teaching on increasing knowledge about cervical cancer awareness.
A single-group pre-test, post-test design was used to select 120 women attending the Gynecological Outpatient Department (OPD) at a Peri-Urban Teaching Hospital in Haryana using a convenient sampling technique. The pre-test knowledge score was collected on the first day using a semi-structured questionnaire. The descriptive and inferential statistics were utilized to analyze the data.
The initial assessment found that 55.83% of women had inadequate knowledge. After a single teaching session, only 1.67% of women had poor knowledge, 46.17% had average knowledge, and 51.67% had good knowledge of cervical cancer. The respondents' mean post-test knowledge score of 13.540 was notably greater than their mean pre-test knowledge score of 7.30. The participants' knowledge scores demonstrated a strong correlation with both parity and their family history of cancer ( > 0.5).
There is a lack of knowledge and awareness about cervical cancer regardless of age, social status, religion, and education level among perimenopausal women. Opportunistic teaching is a cost-effective and efficient way to improve awareness of cervical cancer in a resource-limited country such as India.
尽管有筛查和有效的疫苗，但宫颈癌在印度仍然是最常见的癌症之一。围绝经期女性通常对该疾病缺乏认识且持悲观态度。本研究旨在评估机会性教学对提高宫颈癌认知知识的影响。
采用单组前测、后测设计，使用便利抽样技术从哈里亚纳邦一家城郊教学医院的妇科门诊选取120名女性。在第一天使用半结构化问卷收集前测知识得分。运用描述性和推断性统计分析数据。
初始评估发现55.83%的女性知识不足。经过一次教学后，只有1.67%的女性知识较差，46.17%的女性知识一般，51.67%的女性对宫颈癌有良好的知识掌握。受访者后测知识得分的平均值13.540明显高于前测知识得分的平均值7.30。参与者的知识得分与生育状况和癌症家族史均呈强相关（> 0.5）。
无论年龄、社会地位、宗教和教育水平如何，围绝经期女性对宫颈癌都缺乏知识和认识。在印度这样资源有限的国家，机会性教学是提高宫颈癌认知的一种经济高效的方式。
