CONOCIMIENTOS, ACTITUDES Y PRÁCTICAS SOBRE LA CITOLOGÍA CÉRVICO-UTERINA EN MUJERES DE SINCELEJO Y CARTAGENA, COLOMBIA
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Abstracto
Although in Colombia screening programs of cervical cancer have achieved high levels of coverage, cervical cancer has the first places in incidence and mortality. There is the need to identify factors influencing it, among them is to investigate the level of awareness of women about the screening test, their attitudes to screening and its practices. For this we made a survey of 505 women 13 to 60 years who have had sexual life, living in the cities of Cartagena and Sincelejo (Colombia).The results show that virtually all women have knowledge of cervical cytology, 94.5% of women have made at least once. This percentage is higher in the range of 40 to 60 years where it reaches 99% in younger women this percentage decrease. In defining its usefulness, only 73.8% responded accurately. 50% reported unpleasant aspects related to the making of the cytology, such as fear, and fear of a cancer diagnosis. A fail to remember is the main factor for not claiming the results.These data show that the percentage of women with sexual life that ignores the usefulness of cytology or never have practiced is minimal, which leads to the conclusion that ineffective screening programs to reduce cervical cancer rates depends on other factors that should be investigated.
