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Cognitive predictors of cervical cancer screening's stages of change among sample of Iranian women health volunteers: A path analysis.
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- Evaluation of prevention behaviour and its influencing factors with respect to cancer screening.Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology · 2022Article
- Artificial neural networks (ANNs) for modeling efficient factors in predicting pap smear screening behavior change stage.BioMedicine · 2022Article
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- Innovative prototypes for cervical cancer prevention in low-income primary care settings: A human-centered design approach.PloS one · 2020Article
- Perceived seriousness mediates the influence of cervical cancer knowledge on screening practices among female university students in Ghana.BMC women's health · 2019Article
- Image Registration based Cervical Cancer Detection and Segmentation Using ANFIS ClassifierAsian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2018Article
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Abstract
introductionThe uptake of Pap smear among Iranian women is low, resulting in a high rate of casualties from cervical cancer in Iran. The present study used the Health Belief Model (HBM) and the Stages of Change theory as theoretical frameworks for understanding the predictors of the behaviour of Iranian Women Health Volunteers (WHVs) with respect to cervical cancer screening.
methodsData from the 1,253 WHVs were analyzed using path analysis to assess the effects of cognitive factors (including knowledge, perceived susceptibility to cervical cancer, perceived severity of cervical cancer, Pap smear benefits, Pap smear barriers, and Pap smear self-efficacy) on the stages of change for Pap-smear behaviour.
resultsThe majority of the respondents (71.5%) reported that they had not taken previous Pap smear tests; only 3% had received a regular Pap test. The perceived benefits to cervical cancer screening, the perceived barriers to cervical cancer screening, and the perceived self-efficacy to perform cervical cancer screening emerged as the predictors of cervical cancer screening's stages of change; perceived threat to cervical cancer, however, did not. DISCUSSION: Uptake of regular cervical screening for Iranian WHVs was very low. Different interventions, such as media campaigns and educational interventions could provide an opportunity to improve women's knowledge on cervical cancer and Pap test benefits, address any misconceptions or fears about the procedure of the Pap test, and finally increase the cervical screening uptake by Iranian women.
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