Rubina Hafeez, Fouzia Perveen, Shehla Naeem Zafer.
Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Pattern of Nurses of Tertiary Care Hospitals Regarding Cervical Cancer, its Screening and Prevention.
J Dow Uni Health Sci Jan ;12(1):24-8.

Objective: To assess the knowledge, attitude and practice pattern regarding cervical cancer, its screening and prevention among registered nurses from tertiary care hospitals. Methods: A descriptive cross sectional study was conducted with convenient sampling technique to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice regarding cervical cancer its screening and prevention among registered nurses from 15th January to 15th July 2016. Over all 129 nurses who had already completed their nursing training and willing to participate in the study were enrolled. A self structured pretested questionnaire was used to assess their existing knowledge, attitude and practices regarding prevention and screening of cervical cancer. For each correct answer score 1 marks was given. The findings of the study were developed in frequencies and percentages of each variable. Results: The overall mean scores of the knowledge regarding cervical cancer, its screening and prevention among registered nurses was 5.19 ± 3.69 out of 14 score. The attitude of the nurses regarding cervical cancer, its screening and prevention was poor as mean attitude was 2.88±1.44 out of 8 score. Similarly practicing pattern was also assessed which was found very poor as mean was just 1.35 ±0.95 out of 4 score. Conclusion: Overall knowledge of the nurses regarding cervical cancer, its screening and prevention did not found up to the required standard. The attitude and practice pattern was found much lesser as compare to knowledge, which shows that continous education is required to upgrade these for prevention of the cervical cancer.

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