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Factors affecting attendance to cervical cancer screening among women in the Paracentral Region of El Salvador: a nested study within the CAPE HPV screening program

BACKGROUND: Cervical cancer is the third most commonly occurring cancer among women and the fourth leading cause of cancer-related deaths in women worldwide, with more than 85 % of these cases occurring in developing countries. These global disparities reflect the differences in cervical cancer scre...

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Autores principales: Alfaro, Karla M., Gage, Julia C., Rosenbaum, Alan J., Ditzian, Lauren R., Maza, Mauricio, Scarinci, Isabel C., Miranda, Esmeralda, Villalta, Sofia, Felix, Juan C., Castle, Philip E., Cremer, Miriam L.
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4609068/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26474762
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-2360-7
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author Alfaro, Karla M.
Gage, Julia C.
Rosenbaum, Alan J.
Ditzian, Lauren R.
Maza, Mauricio
Scarinci, Isabel C.
Miranda, Esmeralda
Villalta, Sofia
Felix, Juan C.
Castle, Philip E.
Cremer, Miriam L.
author_facet Alfaro, Karla M.
Gage, Julia C.
Rosenbaum, Alan J.
Ditzian, Lauren R.
Maza, Mauricio
Scarinci, Isabel C.
Miranda, Esmeralda
Villalta, Sofia
Felix, Juan C.
Castle, Philip E.
Cremer, Miriam L.
author_sort Alfaro, Karla M.
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description BACKGROUND: Cervical cancer is the third most commonly occurring cancer among women and the fourth leading cause of cancer-related deaths in women worldwide, with more than 85 % of these cases occurring in developing countries. These global disparities reflect the differences in cervical cancer screening rates between high-income and medium- and low-income countries. At 19 %, El Salvador has the lowest reported screening coverage of all Latin American countries. The purpose of this study is to identify factors affecting public sector HPV DNA-based cervical cancer screening participation in El Salvador. METHODS: This study was nested within a public sector screening program where health promoters used door-to-door outreach to recruit women aged 30–49 years to attend educational sessions about HPV screening. A subgroup of these participants was chosen randomly and questioned about demographic factors, healthcare utilization, previous cervical cancer screening, and HPV knowledge. Women then scheduled screening appointments at their public health clinics. Screening participants were adherent if they attended their scheduled appointment or rescheduled and were screened within 6 months. The association between non-adherence and demographic variables, medical history, history of cancer, sexual history, birth control methods, and screening barriers was assessed using Chi-square tests of significance and logistic regression. RESULTS: All women (n = 409) enrolled in the study scheduled HPV screening appointments, and 88 % attended. Non-adherence was associated with a higher number of lifetime partners and being under-screened—defined as not having participated in cervical cancer screening within the previous 3 years (p = 0.03 and p = 0.04, respectively); 22.8 % of participants in this study were under-screened. CONCLUSIONS: Adherence to cervical cancer screening after educational sessions was higher than expected, in part due to interactions with the community-based health promoters as well as the educational session itself. More effective recruitment methods targeted toward under-screened women are required.
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spelling pubmed-46090682015-10-18 Factors affecting attendance to cervical cancer screening among women in the Paracentral Region of El Salvador: a nested study within the CAPE HPV screening program Alfaro, Karla M. Gage, Julia C. Rosenbaum, Alan J. Ditzian, Lauren R. Maza, Mauricio Scarinci, Isabel C. Miranda, Esmeralda Villalta, Sofia Felix, Juan C. Castle, Philip E. Cremer, Miriam L. BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Cervical cancer is the third most commonly occurring cancer among women and the fourth leading cause of cancer-related deaths in women worldwide, with more than 85 % of these cases occurring in developing countries. These global disparities reflect the differences in cervical cancer screening rates between high-income and medium- and low-income countries. At 19 %, El Salvador has the lowest reported screening coverage of all Latin American countries. The purpose of this study is to identify factors affecting public sector HPV DNA-based cervical cancer screening participation in El Salvador. METHODS: This study was nested within a public sector screening program where health promoters used door-to-door outreach to recruit women aged 30–49 years to attend educational sessions about HPV screening. A subgroup of these participants was chosen randomly and questioned about demographic factors, healthcare utilization, previous cervical cancer screening, and HPV knowledge. Women then scheduled screening appointments at their public health clinics. Screening participants were adherent if they attended their scheduled appointment or rescheduled and were screened within 6 months. The association between non-adherence and demographic variables, medical history, history of cancer, sexual history, birth control methods, and screening barriers was assessed using Chi-square tests of significance and logistic regression. RESULTS: All women (n = 409) enrolled in the study scheduled HPV screening appointments, and 88 % attended. Non-adherence was associated with a higher number of lifetime partners and being under-screened—defined as not having participated in cervical cancer screening within the previous 3 years (p = 0.03 and p = 0.04, respectively); 22.8 % of participants in this study were under-screened. CONCLUSIONS: Adherence to cervical cancer screening after educational sessions was higher than expected, in part due to interactions with the community-based health promoters as well as the educational session itself. More effective recruitment methods targeted toward under-screened women are required. BioMed Central 2015-10-16 /pmc/articles/PMC4609068/ /pubmed/26474762 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-2360-7 Text en © Alfaro et al. 2015 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. 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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Alfaro, Karla M.
Gage, Julia C.
Rosenbaum, Alan J.
Ditzian, Lauren R.
Maza, Mauricio
Scarinci, Isabel C.
Miranda, Esmeralda
Villalta, Sofia
Felix, Juan C.
Castle, Philip E.
Cremer, Miriam L.
Factors affecting attendance to cervical cancer screening among women in the Paracentral Region of El Salvador: a nested study within the CAPE HPV screening program
title Factors affecting attendance to cervical cancer screening among women in the Paracentral Region of El Salvador: a nested study within the CAPE HPV screening program
title_full Factors affecting attendance to cervical cancer screening among women in the Paracentral Region of El Salvador: a nested study within the CAPE HPV screening program
title_fullStr Factors affecting attendance to cervical cancer screening among women in the Paracentral Region of El Salvador: a nested study within the CAPE HPV screening program
title_full_unstemmed Factors affecting attendance to cervical cancer screening among women in the Paracentral Region of El Salvador: a nested study within the CAPE HPV screening program
title_short Factors affecting attendance to cervical cancer screening among women in the Paracentral Region of El Salvador: a nested study within the CAPE HPV screening program
title_sort factors affecting attendance to cervical cancer screening among women in the paracentral region of el salvador: a nested study within the cape hpv screening program
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4609068/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26474762
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-2360-7
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