Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Women’s health concern in Jordan: knowledge, practice and barriers toward cervical cancer screening

Women’s health concern in Jordan: knowledge, practice and barriers toward cervical cancer screening Cervical cancer (CC) is one of the most important health issues faced by women worldwide. The purpose of this study is to identify Jordanian women’s knowledge, barriers and measures pertaining to risk factors and screening choices of CC (Pap smear tests).Design/methodology/approachThis study applied a cross sectional design by collecting data from a convenient sample of 200 women between 20 and 70 years of age in health and public centers in Jordan. Data was then analyzed using the descriptive statistical tools of SPSS, version 21.FindingsThe findings revealed that 55.5% of the participants had no information about the Pap smear, and 75% did not know the risk factors. Moreover, 50% of the sample did not know where to take the test, and 50% reported a lack of encouragement from the husband to undertake the test. More than half of the participants (56.5%) expressed fear that cervical screening would be a painful examination even though they reported not having any previous experience with the test.Originality/valueBased on these findings, public education about CC screening is essential, including advertising and a campaign similar to the breast cancer awareness programs in Jordan, as a way of encouraging early screening to improve the health of women. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare Emerald Publishing

Women’s health concern in Jordan: knowledge, practice and barriers toward cervical cancer screening

Download PDF
9 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/emerald-publishing/women-s-health-concern-in-jordan-knowledge-practice-and-barriers-70lwtzLENJ

References (37)

Publisher
Emerald Publishing
Copyright
© Emerald Publishing Limited
ISSN
2056-4902
eISSN
2056-4902
DOI
10.1108/ijhrh-04-2021-0085
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

Cervical cancer (CC) is one of the most important health issues faced by women worldwide. The purpose of this study is to identify Jordanian women’s knowledge, barriers and measures pertaining to risk factors and screening choices of CC (Pap smear tests).Design/methodology/approachThis study applied a cross sectional design by collecting data from a convenient sample of 200 women between 20 and 70 years of age in health and public centers in Jordan. Data was then analyzed using the descriptive statistical tools of SPSS, version 21.FindingsThe findings revealed that 55.5% of the participants had no information about the Pap smear, and 75% did not know the risk factors. Moreover, 50% of the sample did not know where to take the test, and 50% reported a lack of encouragement from the husband to undertake the test. More than half of the participants (56.5%) expressed fear that cervical screening would be a painful examination even though they reported not having any previous experience with the test.Originality/valueBased on these findings, public education about CC screening is essential, including advertising and a campaign similar to the breast cancer awareness programs in Jordan, as a way of encouraging early screening to improve the health of women.

Journal

International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare – Emerald Publishing

Published: Jun 28, 2023

Keywords: Cervical cancer; Screening tests; Knowledge and barriers

There are no references for this article.