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ArticleWomen's health (London, England)

Knowledge, attitude, and practice on screening toward cervical cancer among health professionals in India-A review.

Bhavika Chawla, Neha Taneja, Aanchal Anant Awasthi, Karuna Nidhi Kaur, Rajiv Janardhanan

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Bhavika ChawlaLaboratory of Disease Dynamics & Molecular Epidemiology, Amity Institute of Public Health, Amity University, Noida, India.
Neha TanejaLaboratory of Disease Dynamics & Molecular Epidemiology, Amity Institute of Public Health, Amity University, Noida, India.ORCID 0000-0003-3818-7993
Aanchal Anant AwasthiLaboratory of Health Data Analytics & Visualization Environment, Amity Institute of Public Health, Amity University, Noida, India.
Karuna Nidhi KaurLaboratory of Disease Dynamics & Molecular Epidemiology, Amity Institute of Public Health, Amity University, Noida, India.
Rajiv JanardhananLaboratory of Disease Dynamics & Molecular Epidemiology, Amity Institute of Public Health, Amity University, Noida, India.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundGlobally, 570,000 cases of cervical cancer and 311,000 deaths from the disease occurred in 2018. Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women. About 96,922 new cervical cancer cases are diagnosed annually in India.

objectiveTo summarize the knowledge, attitude, and practice toward screening of cervical cancer among health professionals in India. MATERIALS AND

methodsHealth sciences electronic databases PubMed and Google Scholar were searched for studies published between 2012 and March 2020. Keywords used for the search were ("CERVICAL CANCER"), ("SCREENING"), ("KNOWLEDGE"), ("ATTITUDE"), ("PRACTICE"), ("HEALTH PROFESSIONALS"), AND ("INDIA"). A total of 22 articles were included in the review based on the eligibility criteria. Statistical software SPSS-V.23 was used for the statistical application.

resultsA total of 22 studies met the inclusion criteria with total of 6811 health professionals. The age of the study participants ranged from 18 to 60 years. The overall knowledge of cervical cancer among health professionals was 75.15%. The knowledge toward signs and symptoms and risk factors was adequate among health professionals. The knowledge, attitude, and practice toward screening was 86.20%, 85.47%, and 12.70%, respectively.

conclusionThe health professionals have optimum level of knowledge of cervical cancer and knowledge of screening of cervical cancer with appropriate attitude toward screening with low uptake of practice toward screening.

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Uterine Cervical NeoplasmsAdolescentAdultCross-Sectional StudiesEarly Detection of CancerFemaleHealth Knowledge, Attitudes, PracticeHumansIndiaMiddle AgedYoung Adultattitudecervical cancerhealth professionalsIndiaknowledgepracticescreening

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