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Utilization of cervical cancer screening and its associated factors among women of child-bearing age in Mangochi district, Malawi: a facility-based cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: Cervical cancer screening (CCS) uptake remains low in poor countries. Few studies have assessed individual need and health system factors which facilitate/impede use of healthcare services, including CCS utilization. Thus, we examined associations between these factors and CCS utilizatio...

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Autores principales: Mpachika-Mfipa, Felistas, Kululanga, Lucy Ida, Mfipa, Dumisani, Kazembe, Abigail
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10290790/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37355588
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12905-023-02472-3
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author Mpachika-Mfipa, Felistas
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description BACKGROUND: Cervical cancer screening (CCS) uptake remains low in poor countries. Few studies have assessed individual need and health system factors which facilitate/impede use of healthcare services, including CCS utilization. Thus, we examined associations between these factors and CCS utilization among women of child-bearing age (WCBA) in Mangochi, Malawi. METHODS: A cross-sectional study, sampling 482 women (18–49 years) using a multi-stage sampling method was conducted in five health facilities (HFs). Data were collected using a structured interview questionnaire from June-July, 2019. Chi-squared or Fisher’s exact tests were used to compare the distribution of CCS utilization according to different independent groups. RESULTS: Our study found that 13.1% of the study participants had a history of CCS. The proportion of WCBA with a history of CCS was significantly higher among HIV + women than HIV- women and women with unknown HIV status, respectively [27.3% (33/121) vs. 8.5% (30/353) vs. 0% (0/8), χ2 = 29.18, df = 2, p < 0.001]. Significantly higher among those who had ever heard of cervical cancer (CC) than those who had not [23.0% (60/261) vs. 1.4% (3/221), χ2 = 49.28, df = 1, p < 0.001], among those who heard of CC from HFs than those who heard through radios, friends/family and other sources, respectively [31.2% (44/141) vs. 16.7% (7/42) vs. 9.3% (5/54) vs. 16.7% (4/24), χ2 = 12.62, df = 3, p = 0.006], among those with positive beliefs towards CCS than those with negative beliefs [19.2% (53/276) vs. 4.9% (10/206), χ2 = 21.37, df = 1 p < 0.001], among those recommended for CCS by health workers (HWs) than those not recommended [19.6% (53/270) vs. 4.7% (10/212), χ2 = 23.24, df = 1, p < 0.001], among those willing to be screened by male HWs than those unwilling [14.4% (60/418) vs. 4.7% (3/64), χ2 = 4.57, df = 1, p = 0.033]. Fisher’s exact test showed that CCS uptake among WCBA varied significantly by level of knowledge of CC signs/symptoms, with 66.7% (12/18) and 19.8% (48/243) among those with high-level and low-level knowledge screened, respectively (p < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: HIV status, ever heard of CC, sources of information, knowledge of CC signs/symptoms, beliefs, recommendations by HWs for CCS, willingness to be screened by male HWs were associated with CCS utilization. Thus, sensitization campaigns for CCS should be conducted to increase uptake. Further, health facilities should intensify health education on CC, including signs and symptoms to increase knowledge. In addition, CC program implementers should be willing to train both males and females to offer CCS as the clients are open to be attended to by male providers as well.
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spelling pubmed-102907902023-06-26 Utilization of cervical cancer screening and its associated factors among women of child-bearing age in Mangochi district, Malawi: a facility-based cross-sectional study Mpachika-Mfipa, Felistas Kululanga, Lucy Ida Mfipa, Dumisani Kazembe, Abigail BMC Womens Health Research BACKGROUND: Cervical cancer screening (CCS) uptake remains low in poor countries. Few studies have assessed individual need and health system factors which facilitate/impede use of healthcare services, including CCS utilization. Thus, we examined associations between these factors and CCS utilization among women of child-bearing age (WCBA) in Mangochi, Malawi. METHODS: A cross-sectional study, sampling 482 women (18–49 years) using a multi-stage sampling method was conducted in five health facilities (HFs). Data were collected using a structured interview questionnaire from June-July, 2019. Chi-squared or Fisher’s exact tests were used to compare the distribution of CCS utilization according to different independent groups. RESULTS: Our study found that 13.1% of the study participants had a history of CCS. The proportion of WCBA with a history of CCS was significantly higher among HIV + women than HIV- women and women with unknown HIV status, respectively [27.3% (33/121) vs. 8.5% (30/353) vs. 0% (0/8), χ2 = 29.18, df = 2, p < 0.001]. Significantly higher among those who had ever heard of cervical cancer (CC) than those who had not [23.0% (60/261) vs. 1.4% (3/221), χ2 = 49.28, df = 1, p < 0.001], among those who heard of CC from HFs than those who heard through radios, friends/family and other sources, respectively [31.2% (44/141) vs. 16.7% (7/42) vs. 9.3% (5/54) vs. 16.7% (4/24), χ2 = 12.62, df = 3, p = 0.006], among those with positive beliefs towards CCS than those with negative beliefs [19.2% (53/276) vs. 4.9% (10/206), χ2 = 21.37, df = 1 p < 0.001], among those recommended for CCS by health workers (HWs) than those not recommended [19.6% (53/270) vs. 4.7% (10/212), χ2 = 23.24, df = 1, p < 0.001], among those willing to be screened by male HWs than those unwilling [14.4% (60/418) vs. 4.7% (3/64), χ2 = 4.57, df = 1, p = 0.033]. Fisher’s exact test showed that CCS uptake among WCBA varied significantly by level of knowledge of CC signs/symptoms, with 66.7% (12/18) and 19.8% (48/243) among those with high-level and low-level knowledge screened, respectively (p < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: HIV status, ever heard of CC, sources of information, knowledge of CC signs/symptoms, beliefs, recommendations by HWs for CCS, willingness to be screened by male HWs were associated with CCS utilization. Thus, sensitization campaigns for CCS should be conducted to increase uptake. Further, health facilities should intensify health education on CC, including signs and symptoms to increase knowledge. In addition, CC program implementers should be willing to train both males and females to offer CCS as the clients are open to be attended to by male providers as well. BioMed Central 2023-06-24 /pmc/articles/PMC10290790/ /pubmed/37355588 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12905-023-02472-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Mpachika-Mfipa, Felistas
Kululanga, Lucy Ida
Mfipa, Dumisani
Kazembe, Abigail
Utilization of cervical cancer screening and its associated factors among women of child-bearing age in Mangochi district, Malawi: a facility-based cross-sectional study
title Utilization of cervical cancer screening and its associated factors among women of child-bearing age in Mangochi district, Malawi: a facility-based cross-sectional study
title_full Utilization of cervical cancer screening and its associated factors among women of child-bearing age in Mangochi district, Malawi: a facility-based cross-sectional study
title_fullStr Utilization of cervical cancer screening and its associated factors among women of child-bearing age in Mangochi district, Malawi: a facility-based cross-sectional study
title_full_unstemmed Utilization of cervical cancer screening and its associated factors among women of child-bearing age in Mangochi district, Malawi: a facility-based cross-sectional study
title_short Utilization of cervical cancer screening and its associated factors among women of child-bearing age in Mangochi district, Malawi: a facility-based cross-sectional study
title_sort utilization of cervical cancer screening and its associated factors among women of child-bearing age in mangochi district, malawi: a facility-based cross-sectional study
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10290790/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37355588
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12905-023-02472-3
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