Rubina Hafeez, Fouzia Perveen, Shehla Naeem Zafar, Alyna Hafeez.
Educational effect on knowledge, attitude and practice among registered nurses regarding cervical cancer, its prevention and screening in Karachi, Pakistan..
J Pak Med Assoc Jan ;70(4):674-8.

To determine the effects of education on knowledge, attitude and practice status regarding cervical cancer, its prevention and screening among registered nurses working at tertiary care hospitals. The quasi-experimental study was conducted in 2016(15th June-15th July) at Civil Hospital, Karachi, and Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, and comprised registered nurses enrolled through non-probability convenience sampling. Baseline demographic characteristics and knowledge, attitude and practice levels of the nurses was gathered using a self-structured pretested and validated questionnaire. An education session on, "prevention and screening of cervical cancer" was conducted and its effectiveness was determined using the same questionnaire post-intervention. The difference in pre- and post-intervention values were determined. P<0.05 was considered significant. There were 129 subjects with a mean age of 34.2±3.8 years, and 69(53.5%) had work experience of 5 years or less. There was significant mean difference between baseline and post-intervention scores in terms of knowledge and practice (p<0.05), while attitude scores were not significantly different (p>0.05). The difference in knowledge scores were significant in all age groups, marital status, work experience and education (p<0.05 each). There was a highly significant impact of education on the knowledge level of the subjects.

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