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Factors explaining men’s intentions to support their partner’s participation in cervical cancer screening
BACKGROUND: Cervical cancer represents a high burden of disease. Many women in low- and middle-income countries face opposition from their partners and families to undergo cervical cancer screening. Identifying the social, cultural, and psychological factors that underly the opposition to screening...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9652784/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36369003 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12905-022-02019-y |
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author | Dsouza, Jyoshma Preema Van den Broucke, Stephan Pattanshetty, Sanjay Dhoore, William |
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description | BACKGROUND: Cervical cancer represents a high burden of disease. Many women in low- and middle-income countries face opposition from their partners and families to undergo cervical cancer screening. Identifying the social, cultural, and psychological factors that underly the opposition to screening by male partners is an important step towards reducing barriers for men to support their wives’ participation in cervical screening. This study explored the role of structural and psychological factors deriving from theoretical models as determinants of Indian men’s opposition to their partners being screened for cervical cancer. METHODS: A survey among 500 sexually active males was conducted between April 2020 and August 2020 to measure knowledge of cervical cancer and screening, awareness of screening possibilities, attitude towards screening, perceived barriers to screening, and health literacy. Regression analysis was performed to assess which of the potential factors contributed to the intention to support their wives’ screening. RESULTS: The majority of participants had very poor knowledge and awareness about cervical cancer and screening procedures, tended towards a negative attitude towards screening, and perceived several structural barriers. Attitude towards the screening procedure and routine participation in general screening significantly predicted their intention to support their wives’ screening for cervical cancer. Education moderated the association between knowledge and awareness and the intention to support their wives’ screening. CONCLUSION: As women often rely on their spouses’ financial and emotional support of cervical screening, there is a need for men to be encouraged to support their wives’ screening participation. Programs to encourage men to support their wives’ cervical screening should focus on their attitude towards screening, educate about cervical cancer and screening procedures, and reduce perceived barriers. |
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spelling | pubmed-96527842022-11-15 Factors explaining men’s intentions to support their partner’s participation in cervical cancer screening Dsouza, Jyoshma Preema Van den Broucke, Stephan Pattanshetty, Sanjay Dhoore, William BMC Womens Health Research BACKGROUND: Cervical cancer represents a high burden of disease. Many women in low- and middle-income countries face opposition from their partners and families to undergo cervical cancer screening. Identifying the social, cultural, and psychological factors that underly the opposition to screening by male partners is an important step towards reducing barriers for men to support their wives’ participation in cervical screening. This study explored the role of structural and psychological factors deriving from theoretical models as determinants of Indian men’s opposition to their partners being screened for cervical cancer. METHODS: A survey among 500 sexually active males was conducted between April 2020 and August 2020 to measure knowledge of cervical cancer and screening, awareness of screening possibilities, attitude towards screening, perceived barriers to screening, and health literacy. Regression analysis was performed to assess which of the potential factors contributed to the intention to support their wives’ screening. RESULTS: The majority of participants had very poor knowledge and awareness about cervical cancer and screening procedures, tended towards a negative attitude towards screening, and perceived several structural barriers. Attitude towards the screening procedure and routine participation in general screening significantly predicted their intention to support their wives’ screening for cervical cancer. Education moderated the association between knowledge and awareness and the intention to support their wives’ screening. CONCLUSION: As women often rely on their spouses’ financial and emotional support of cervical screening, there is a need for men to be encouraged to support their wives’ screening participation. Programs to encourage men to support their wives’ cervical screening should focus on their attitude towards screening, educate about cervical cancer and screening procedures, and reduce perceived barriers. BioMed Central 2022-11-11 /pmc/articles/PMC9652784/ /pubmed/36369003 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12905-022-02019-y Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Dsouza, Jyoshma Preema Van den Broucke, Stephan Pattanshetty, Sanjay Dhoore, William Factors explaining men’s intentions to support their partner’s participation in cervical cancer screening |
title | Factors explaining men’s intentions to support their partner’s participation in cervical cancer screening |
title_full | Factors explaining men’s intentions to support their partner’s participation in cervical cancer screening |
title_fullStr | Factors explaining men’s intentions to support their partner’s participation in cervical cancer screening |
title_full_unstemmed | Factors explaining men’s intentions to support their partner’s participation in cervical cancer screening |
title_short | Factors explaining men’s intentions to support their partner’s participation in cervical cancer screening |
title_sort | factors explaining men’s intentions to support their partner’s participation in cervical cancer screening |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9652784/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36369003 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12905-022-02019-y |
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