Cervical cancer screening knowledge and barriers among women in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Routine cervical screening has been shown to greatly reduce both the number of new cervical cancers diagnosed each year and the number of deaths resulting from the disease. Nevertheless, cervical screening knowledge and screening uptake is very low in developing countries. In Ethiopia, the coverage of cervical cancer screening is only 1%. In this study, we aimed to assess cervical cancer screening knowledge and barriers for screening uptake among women in Addis Ababa Ethiopia.

Methods

A facility-based cross-sectional study was conducted from February to March 2015 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. A total of 520 women were selected by a multi-stage sampling procedure. Interview based questioner was used to collect the data. Descriptive statistics was used to describe th

SUBMITTER: Getachew S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6510425 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature