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Effectiveness of a Health Education Program to Improve Knowledge and Attitude Towards Cervical Cancer and Pap Smear: A Controlled Community Trial in Malaysia

OBJECTIVE: We examined the effectiveness of a health education program to improve; knowledge and attitude towards cervical cancer and Pap smear, and uptake of Pap smear test among female entrepreneurs in Kedah, a northern state of Malaysia. METHODS: This controlled community trial involved 210 women...

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Autores principales: Romli, Rodziah, Shahabudin, Sa’adiah, Saddki, Norkhafizah, Mokhtar, Norehan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7437328/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32212817
http://dx.doi.org/10.31557/APJCP.2020.21.3.853
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author Romli, Rodziah
Shahabudin, Sa’adiah
Saddki, Norkhafizah
Mokhtar, Norehan
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Shahabudin, Sa’adiah
Saddki, Norkhafizah
Mokhtar, Norehan
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description OBJECTIVE: We examined the effectiveness of a health education program to improve; knowledge and attitude towards cervical cancer and Pap smear, and uptake of Pap smear test among female entrepreneurs in Kedah, a northern state of Malaysia. METHODS: This controlled community trial involved 210 women from the districts of Alor Setar and Sungai Petani. Simple random sampling was applied to select 105 women from each district. Self-administered questionnaires were used to obtain information about the variables of interest. Health education intervention program included educational talk, demo video, experience sharing, pamphlet distribution, and text message reminders. Evaluation of outcomes was performed twice. The text message reminders acted as the cues to action that were sent between the two evaluation times at one-month interval. Women in the control group received educational talk alone. In the control group, evaluation of outcomes was done only once, which was one month after the educational talk. RESULTS: Knowledge on cervical cancer and Pap smear, and attitude towards Pap smear among women in both intervention and control group improved significantly at Evaluation 1. However, no further improvements were observed in the intervention group at Evaluation. The uptake of Pap smear in the intervention group increased significantly from 48.0% at Baseline to 68.0% at Evaluation 1 (P<0.001), and from 68.0% to 79.0% at Evaluation (P<0.001). A significant increase in Pap smear uptake was also seen in the control group from 63.0% at Baseline to 76.0% at Evaluation stage 1 (P=0.003). CONCLUSIONS: Educational talk alone was effective in improving knowledge on cervical cancer and Pap smear, attitude towards the test, and the actual uptake of the test. However, text reminders were more effective than having an educational talk alone in increasing uptake of Pap smear test among participants.
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spelling pubmed-74373282020-09-02 Effectiveness of a Health Education Program to Improve Knowledge and Attitude Towards Cervical Cancer and Pap Smear: A Controlled Community Trial in Malaysia Romli, Rodziah Shahabudin, Sa’adiah Saddki, Norkhafizah Mokhtar, Norehan Asian Pac J Cancer Prev Research Article OBJECTIVE: We examined the effectiveness of a health education program to improve; knowledge and attitude towards cervical cancer and Pap smear, and uptake of Pap smear test among female entrepreneurs in Kedah, a northern state of Malaysia. METHODS: This controlled community trial involved 210 women from the districts of Alor Setar and Sungai Petani. Simple random sampling was applied to select 105 women from each district. Self-administered questionnaires were used to obtain information about the variables of interest. Health education intervention program included educational talk, demo video, experience sharing, pamphlet distribution, and text message reminders. Evaluation of outcomes was performed twice. The text message reminders acted as the cues to action that were sent between the two evaluation times at one-month interval. Women in the control group received educational talk alone. In the control group, evaluation of outcomes was done only once, which was one month after the educational talk. RESULTS: Knowledge on cervical cancer and Pap smear, and attitude towards Pap smear among women in both intervention and control group improved significantly at Evaluation 1. However, no further improvements were observed in the intervention group at Evaluation. The uptake of Pap smear in the intervention group increased significantly from 48.0% at Baseline to 68.0% at Evaluation 1 (P<0.001), and from 68.0% to 79.0% at Evaluation (P<0.001). A significant increase in Pap smear uptake was also seen in the control group from 63.0% at Baseline to 76.0% at Evaluation stage 1 (P=0.003). CONCLUSIONS: Educational talk alone was effective in improving knowledge on cervical cancer and Pap smear, attitude towards the test, and the actual uptake of the test. However, text reminders were more effective than having an educational talk alone in increasing uptake of Pap smear test among participants. West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention 2020-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7437328/ /pubmed/32212817 http://dx.doi.org/10.31557/APJCP.2020.21.3.853 Text en This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Romli, Rodziah
Shahabudin, Sa’adiah
Saddki, Norkhafizah
Mokhtar, Norehan
Effectiveness of a Health Education Program to Improve Knowledge and Attitude Towards Cervical Cancer and Pap Smear: A Controlled Community Trial in Malaysia
title Effectiveness of a Health Education Program to Improve Knowledge and Attitude Towards Cervical Cancer and Pap Smear: A Controlled Community Trial in Malaysia
title_full Effectiveness of a Health Education Program to Improve Knowledge and Attitude Towards Cervical Cancer and Pap Smear: A Controlled Community Trial in Malaysia
title_fullStr Effectiveness of a Health Education Program to Improve Knowledge and Attitude Towards Cervical Cancer and Pap Smear: A Controlled Community Trial in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Effectiveness of a Health Education Program to Improve Knowledge and Attitude Towards Cervical Cancer and Pap Smear: A Controlled Community Trial in Malaysia
title_short Effectiveness of a Health Education Program to Improve Knowledge and Attitude Towards Cervical Cancer and Pap Smear: A Controlled Community Trial in Malaysia
title_sort effectiveness of a health education program to improve knowledge and attitude towards cervical cancer and pap smear: a controlled community trial in malaysia
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7437328/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32212817
http://dx.doi.org/10.31557/APJCP.2020.21.3.853
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