Factors Predicting Nurse Intent and Status Regarding Pap Smear Examination in Taiwan: a Cross-sectional Survey
Autor: | Mei-Mei Hsieh, Ya-Ling Tzeng, Shu Ling Chen, Lin-Lin Lee, Shu-Fang Tsai |
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Rok vydání: | 2016 |
Předmět: |
Adult
Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice Cancer Research Epidemiology Cross-sectional study Sexual Behavior education Population Taiwan Psychological intervention Nurses Uterine Cervical Neoplasms Physical examination Intention 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Nursing Surveys and Questionnaires medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Health Education Physical Examination Vaginal Smears Cervical cancer education.field_of_study medicine.diagnostic_test Descriptive statistics business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Middle Aged medicine.disease female genital diseases and pregnancy complications Confirmatory factor analysis Cross-Sectional Studies Oncology 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Female Health education business Papanicolaou Test |
Zdroj: | Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention. 17:165-170 |
ISSN: | 1513-7368 |
DOI: | 10.7314/apjcp.2016.17.1.165 |
Popis: | Background Nurses are the most visible, frontline personnel providing health education to patients. In particular, nurse experience with Pap examinations have the potential to influence women's attitudes toward screening for cervical cancer. However, nurses in Taiwan have lower rates of Pap testing than the general population. Understanding the factors predicting nurse intent to have a Pap exam and Pap exam status would inform interventions and policies to increase their Pap exam uptake. Therefore, the present study was undertaken. Materials and methods Data were collected by questionnaire from a convenient sample of 504 nurses at a regional hospital in central Taiwan between August and October 2011 and analyzed by descriptive statistics, confirmatory factor analysis, and logistic regression. Results Nurse intention to have a Pap exam was predicted by younger age, less negative attitudes toward Pap exams, and greater influence of others recommendations. However, nurses were more likely to actually have had a Pap exam if they were older, married, had sexual experience, and had a high intention to have a Pap exam. Conclusions Nurses who are younger than 34 years old, unmarried, sexually inexperienced, and with low intention to have a Pap exam should be targeted with interventions to educate them not only about the importance of Pap exams in detecting cervical cancer, but also about strategies to decrease pain and embarrassment during exams. Nurses with less negative attitudes and experiences related to Pap exams would serve as role models to persuade women to have Pap exams, thus increasing the uptake rate of Pap exams in Taiwan. |
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