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Knowledge and attitude of Uyghur women in Xinjiang province of China related to the prevention and early detection of cervical cancer

BACKGROUND: Cervical cancer is one of the commonest causes of cancer-related deaths worldwide. The prevalence rate of cervical cancer in Uyghur women in Xinjiang Autonomous Region of China has been remarkably higher than the ethnic groups living in the same region. This study aimed to assess the kno...

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Autores principales: Abudukadeer, Abida, Azam, Sumeyya, Mutailipu, Ayi Zuoremu, Qun, Liu, Guilin, Guo, Mijiti, Sayipujiamali
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4371720/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25885660
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12957-015-0531-8
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author Abudukadeer, Abida
Azam, Sumeyya
Mutailipu, Ayi Zuoremu
Qun, Liu
Guilin, Guo
Mijiti, Sayipujiamali
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Azam, Sumeyya
Mutailipu, Ayi Zuoremu
Qun, Liu
Guilin, Guo
Mijiti, Sayipujiamali
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description BACKGROUND: Cervical cancer is one of the commonest causes of cancer-related deaths worldwide. The prevalence rate of cervical cancer in Uyghur women in Xinjiang Autonomous Region of China has been remarkably higher than the ethnic groups living in the same region. This study aimed to assess the knowledge level and attitude of cervical cancer and its issues among the Uyghur women in Xinjiang province of China. METHODS: A cross-sectional interview-based survey of 5,000 Uyghur women was developed from 2013 to 2014 in Xinjiang autonomous region, to assess their knowledge and perception of cervical cancer and its issues. The collection of data was based on the questionnaire items. RESULTS: According to the questionnaire items, we collected a data for 5,000 participants. A very small proportion of participants had heard of the cervical cancer, human papillomavirus (HPV), and HPV vaccine, that is, 27.0%, 13.0% and, 6.0%, respectively. According to the demographic characteristics, women aged 31 to 40 years were more aware of the knowledge of cervical cancer (32.9%), HPV (17.8%), and HPV vaccine (9.1%), and women with undergraduate or higher educational level had more knowledge of cervical cancer (30.0%), HPV (21.0%), and HPV vaccine (9.7%). CONCLUSIONS: From our study, we concluded that Uyghur women need more information about cervical cancer and its risk factors. Lack of the related knowledge about cervical cancer may be one of the important factors for high incidence rate of cervical cancer in Uyghur population. In order to reduce the incidence rate and mortality of cervical cancer in Uyghur women and to make extensive health education to raise awareness of cervical cancer and HPV is strongly needed than prophylactic vaccination.
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spelling pubmed-43717202015-03-25 Knowledge and attitude of Uyghur women in Xinjiang province of China related to the prevention and early detection of cervical cancer Abudukadeer, Abida Azam, Sumeyya Mutailipu, Ayi Zuoremu Qun, Liu Guilin, Guo Mijiti, Sayipujiamali World J Surg Oncol Research BACKGROUND: Cervical cancer is one of the commonest causes of cancer-related deaths worldwide. The prevalence rate of cervical cancer in Uyghur women in Xinjiang Autonomous Region of China has been remarkably higher than the ethnic groups living in the same region. This study aimed to assess the knowledge level and attitude of cervical cancer and its issues among the Uyghur women in Xinjiang province of China. METHODS: A cross-sectional interview-based survey of 5,000 Uyghur women was developed from 2013 to 2014 in Xinjiang autonomous region, to assess their knowledge and perception of cervical cancer and its issues. The collection of data was based on the questionnaire items. RESULTS: According to the questionnaire items, we collected a data for 5,000 participants. A very small proportion of participants had heard of the cervical cancer, human papillomavirus (HPV), and HPV vaccine, that is, 27.0%, 13.0% and, 6.0%, respectively. According to the demographic characteristics, women aged 31 to 40 years were more aware of the knowledge of cervical cancer (32.9%), HPV (17.8%), and HPV vaccine (9.1%), and women with undergraduate or higher educational level had more knowledge of cervical cancer (30.0%), HPV (21.0%), and HPV vaccine (9.7%). CONCLUSIONS: From our study, we concluded that Uyghur women need more information about cervical cancer and its risk factors. Lack of the related knowledge about cervical cancer may be one of the important factors for high incidence rate of cervical cancer in Uyghur population. In order to reduce the incidence rate and mortality of cervical cancer in Uyghur women and to make extensive health education to raise awareness of cervical cancer and HPV is strongly needed than prophylactic vaccination. BioMed Central 2015-03-14 /pmc/articles/PMC4371720/ /pubmed/25885660 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12957-015-0531-8 Text en © Abudukadeer et al.; licensee BioMed Central. 2015 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Abudukadeer, Abida
Azam, Sumeyya
Mutailipu, Ayi Zuoremu
Qun, Liu
Guilin, Guo
Mijiti, Sayipujiamali
Knowledge and attitude of Uyghur women in Xinjiang province of China related to the prevention and early detection of cervical cancer
title Knowledge and attitude of Uyghur women in Xinjiang province of China related to the prevention and early detection of cervical cancer
title_full Knowledge and attitude of Uyghur women in Xinjiang province of China related to the prevention and early detection of cervical cancer
title_fullStr Knowledge and attitude of Uyghur women in Xinjiang province of China related to the prevention and early detection of cervical cancer
title_full_unstemmed Knowledge and attitude of Uyghur women in Xinjiang province of China related to the prevention and early detection of cervical cancer
title_short Knowledge and attitude of Uyghur women in Xinjiang province of China related to the prevention and early detection of cervical cancer
title_sort knowledge and attitude of uyghur women in xinjiang province of china related to the prevention and early detection of cervical cancer
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4371720/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25885660
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12957-015-0531-8
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