TY - JOUR AU - Kosambiya, Rohan J AU - Gohil, Alpesh AU - Kamdar, Zeel N AU - Patel, Prakash AU - Modi, Anjali PY - 2018/06/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Knowledge, Attitude and Practices about Cervical Cancer and Screening among Nurses of a Tertiary Care Centre in Western India JF - National Journal of Community Medicine JA - Natl J Community Med VL - 9 IS - 06 SE - Original Research Articles DO - UR - https://njcmindia.com/index.php/file/article/view/725 SP - 391-395 AB - <p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Nurses play a crucial role of enlightening commu- nity about need and availability of screening test so it is important to explore the knowledge, attitude and practices of nurses about cervical cancer and screening.</p><p><strong>Methodology: </strong>A pretested semi structured questionnaire used to carry out the study among nurses of a tertiary care centre in West- ern India.</p><p><strong>Observations: </strong>Out of total 103 nurses, 90.3% were married with mean age was 34 years. Majority (98%) were aware about cervical cancer while 73.8% agreed that it could be prevented. Major symp- toms of cervical cancer recognized were irregular bleeding (31.7%) &amp; foul smelling vaginal discharge (34.2%). Nursing academic study (51.3%) was the leading source of all information. Risk fac- tors identified were Human Papilloma Virus (15.6%) and poor personal hygine (14.7%). As many as 62% nurses felt that they were not at risk of cervical cancer. Only 3.9% had received HPV vaccine.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This study highlights major Knowledge, Attitude, Practice gap among nursing staff regarding cervical cancer.</p> ER -