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Awareness of cervical cancer among women attending an HIV treatment centre: a cross-sectional study from Morocco
OBJECTIVE: To explore awareness about cervical cancer among Moroccan women attending an HIV treatment centre in Laâyoune city, Morocco. DESIGN: A cross-sectional study was conducted from April to June 2017 using a knowledge test regarding cervical cancer, its risk factors and its prevention. SETTING...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6112383/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30139893 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020343 |
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author | Belglaiaa, Essaada Souho, Tiatou Badaoui, Latifa Segondy, Michel Prétet, Jean-Luc Guenat, David Mougin, Christiane |
author_facet | Belglaiaa, Essaada Souho, Tiatou Badaoui, Latifa Segondy, Michel Prétet, Jean-Luc Guenat, David Mougin, Christiane |
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description | OBJECTIVE: To explore awareness about cervical cancer among Moroccan women attending an HIV treatment centre in Laâyoune city, Morocco. DESIGN: A cross-sectional study was conducted from April to June 2017 using a knowledge test regarding cervical cancer, its risk factors and its prevention. SETTING: HIV treatment centre at the Hospital of Moulay Hassan Ben Elmehdi in Laâyoune city, Morocco. PARTICIPANTS: One hundred and twenty-three HIV-positive women aged 19 years and older were recruited to this study. RESULTS: A total of 115 women were eligible to participate in the study. The average age was 34.9±10.2 years. Few women (20%) had heard about cervical cancer and its screening, the majority (17.4%) having received information from mass media. The vast majority (79.1%) of respondents had no knowledge of cervical cancer risk factors, and 80.8% did not know any symptoms of cervical cancer. Only 13% had undergone a Pap smear test. The main reason for not seeking Pap smear was the absence of symptoms (47%). CONCLUSION: Our study documents poor awareness of cervical cancer. Given that the HIV-positive population is at increased risk of cervical cancer, health education programmes should be promoted to increase awareness of cervical cancer as well as access and participation in cervical cancer screening. |
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spelling | pubmed-61123832018-08-30 Awareness of cervical cancer among women attending an HIV treatment centre: a cross-sectional study from Morocco Belglaiaa, Essaada Souho, Tiatou Badaoui, Latifa Segondy, Michel Prétet, Jean-Luc Guenat, David Mougin, Christiane BMJ Open Obstetrics and Gynaecology OBJECTIVE: To explore awareness about cervical cancer among Moroccan women attending an HIV treatment centre in Laâyoune city, Morocco. DESIGN: A cross-sectional study was conducted from April to June 2017 using a knowledge test regarding cervical cancer, its risk factors and its prevention. SETTING: HIV treatment centre at the Hospital of Moulay Hassan Ben Elmehdi in Laâyoune city, Morocco. PARTICIPANTS: One hundred and twenty-three HIV-positive women aged 19 years and older were recruited to this study. RESULTS: A total of 115 women were eligible to participate in the study. The average age was 34.9±10.2 years. Few women (20%) had heard about cervical cancer and its screening, the majority (17.4%) having received information from mass media. The vast majority (79.1%) of respondents had no knowledge of cervical cancer risk factors, and 80.8% did not know any symptoms of cervical cancer. Only 13% had undergone a Pap smear test. The main reason for not seeking Pap smear was the absence of symptoms (47%). CONCLUSION: Our study documents poor awareness of cervical cancer. Given that the HIV-positive population is at increased risk of cervical cancer, health education programmes should be promoted to increase awareness of cervical cancer as well as access and participation in cervical cancer screening. BMJ Publishing Group 2018-08-23 /pmc/articles/PMC6112383/ /pubmed/30139893 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020343 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2018. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Obstetrics and Gynaecology Belglaiaa, Essaada Souho, Tiatou Badaoui, Latifa Segondy, Michel Prétet, Jean-Luc Guenat, David Mougin, Christiane Awareness of cervical cancer among women attending an HIV treatment centre: a cross-sectional study from Morocco |
title | Awareness of cervical cancer among women attending an HIV treatment centre: a cross-sectional study from Morocco |
title_full | Awareness of cervical cancer among women attending an HIV treatment centre: a cross-sectional study from Morocco |
title_fullStr | Awareness of cervical cancer among women attending an HIV treatment centre: a cross-sectional study from Morocco |
title_full_unstemmed | Awareness of cervical cancer among women attending an HIV treatment centre: a cross-sectional study from Morocco |
title_short | Awareness of cervical cancer among women attending an HIV treatment centre: a cross-sectional study from Morocco |
title_sort | awareness of cervical cancer among women attending an hiv treatment centre: a cross-sectional study from morocco |
topic | Obstetrics and Gynaecology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6112383/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30139893 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020343 |
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