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Knowledge, attitudes and practices among Brazzaville midwives on cervical cancer screening
INTRODUCTION: cervical cancer is an illness that causes 250,000 deaths worldwide. Data on Health professional's skills is highly important for the elaboration of prevention strategies. Objective: assess the knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) among Brazzaville midwives on cervical cancer s...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7687477/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33282094 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2020.36.311.19102 |
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author | Tebeu, Pierre Marie Antaon, Jesse saint Saba Nerbardoum, Derguedbé Vassilakos, Pierre de Beaudrap, Pierre Petignat, Patrick |
author_facet | Tebeu, Pierre Marie Antaon, Jesse saint Saba Nerbardoum, Derguedbé Vassilakos, Pierre de Beaudrap, Pierre Petignat, Patrick |
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description | INTRODUCTION: cervical cancer is an illness that causes 250,000 deaths worldwide. Data on Health professional's skills is highly important for the elaboration of prevention strategies. Objective: assess the knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) among Brazzaville midwives on cervical cancer screening. METHODS: analytical KAP Study, from May 2(nd) to August 10(th) 2018. Participants are midwives working in the Gynaecology-Obstetrics departments of six hospitals in Brazzaville (Republic of Congo). Variables were related to their socio-demographic and occupational characteristics, as well as to their knowledge, attitudes and practices. Analyses were done using the Epi Info 7.2.2.6 software. Frequencies, central trend parameters, as well as rib ratios were calculated. Pearson, Fisher and Wald statistical tests with a significance level of 5% where used. RESULTS: the study included 114 midwives aged 43.07 (± 7.40) years. They had an unsatisfactory level of knowledge (59.64%), favourable attitudes (92.98%) and poor practices (71.05%). The factors linked with best (satisfactory) knowledge were, seniority at workplace (10-27 years) [29.31%] vs. 51, 79%; OR; 2.59 (1.19-5.60)] and age (42-60 years) [31.81% vs. 52.08%; OR 2.32 (1.08-5.01)]. The best knowledge were related to the best practices (good) [16.18% vs. 47.83%; OR a = 2.95 (1.87-4.67)]; Midwives attitudes seem to not impact on their practices (p = 0.53). CONCLUSION: Brazzaville midwives have little knowledge and practices on cervical cancer screening. Therefore, the need of training them and equipping cervical cancer screening. |
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spelling | pubmed-76874772020-12-03 Knowledge, attitudes and practices among Brazzaville midwives on cervical cancer screening Tebeu, Pierre Marie Antaon, Jesse saint Saba Nerbardoum, Derguedbé Vassilakos, Pierre de Beaudrap, Pierre Petignat, Patrick Pan Afr Med J Research INTRODUCTION: cervical cancer is an illness that causes 250,000 deaths worldwide. Data on Health professional's skills is highly important for the elaboration of prevention strategies. Objective: assess the knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) among Brazzaville midwives on cervical cancer screening. METHODS: analytical KAP Study, from May 2(nd) to August 10(th) 2018. Participants are midwives working in the Gynaecology-Obstetrics departments of six hospitals in Brazzaville (Republic of Congo). Variables were related to their socio-demographic and occupational characteristics, as well as to their knowledge, attitudes and practices. Analyses were done using the Epi Info 7.2.2.6 software. Frequencies, central trend parameters, as well as rib ratios were calculated. Pearson, Fisher and Wald statistical tests with a significance level of 5% where used. RESULTS: the study included 114 midwives aged 43.07 (± 7.40) years. They had an unsatisfactory level of knowledge (59.64%), favourable attitudes (92.98%) and poor practices (71.05%). The factors linked with best (satisfactory) knowledge were, seniority at workplace (10-27 years) [29.31%] vs. 51, 79%; OR; 2.59 (1.19-5.60)] and age (42-60 years) [31.81% vs. 52.08%; OR 2.32 (1.08-5.01)]. The best knowledge were related to the best practices (good) [16.18% vs. 47.83%; OR a = 2.95 (1.87-4.67)]; Midwives attitudes seem to not impact on their practices (p = 0.53). CONCLUSION: Brazzaville midwives have little knowledge and practices on cervical cancer screening. Therefore, the need of training them and equipping cervical cancer screening. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2020-08-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7687477/ /pubmed/33282094 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2020.36.311.19102 Text en Copyright: Pierre Marie Tebeu et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 The Pan African Medical Journal (ISSN: 1937-8688). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Tebeu, Pierre Marie Antaon, Jesse saint Saba Nerbardoum, Derguedbé Vassilakos, Pierre de Beaudrap, Pierre Petignat, Patrick Knowledge, attitudes and practices among Brazzaville midwives on cervical cancer screening |
title | Knowledge, attitudes and practices among Brazzaville midwives on cervical cancer screening |
title_full | Knowledge, attitudes and practices among Brazzaville midwives on cervical cancer screening |
title_fullStr | Knowledge, attitudes and practices among Brazzaville midwives on cervical cancer screening |
title_full_unstemmed | Knowledge, attitudes and practices among Brazzaville midwives on cervical cancer screening |
title_short | Knowledge, attitudes and practices among Brazzaville midwives on cervical cancer screening |
title_sort | knowledge, attitudes and practices among brazzaville midwives on cervical cancer screening |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7687477/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33282094 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2020.36.311.19102 |
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