Novel educational training of para medical professionals in cervical cancer screening.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cervical cancer is a public health problem in India due to weak national screening policy compounded by lack of resources including scarcity of trained personnel to carry out community-based screening program. Para medical professionals (PMPs) are closely related to women in local communities. Hence, training PMPs by incorporating novel technology and reduced time duration to achieve adequate competence in screening is an area underutilized and needs to be explored.

Materials and methods

A pilot cross sectional analytical study was conducted at a tertiary referral cancer center using a shorter version of educational intervention of 2 weeks duration (EI2W) involving PMPs. Pre- and post-training assessment of knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) was done using qu

SUBMITTER: Raj S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10372157 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature