Revista Gestão & Saúde (Dec 2013)
EDUCATIONAL ASPECTS OF CERVICAL CANCER PREVENTION PROGRAM, BELÉM, PARÁ, BRAZIL
Abstract
Health Education is primordial in primary care, can contribute to the success of the Cervical Cancer Prevention Program (CCPP). The objective of this study was to verify the women knowledge about cervical cancer and HPV virus, with emphasis on educational aspects. The study’s sample was represented by 157 women attending by the Cervical Cancer Prevention Program (CCPP) of a public health unit in Belém/PA, in 2012. The age ranged from 17 to 80 years old, with a median of 37 years old, 60.5% of the people have not completed the high school and some of them has college, 71.3% had a family income of one minimum wage. Of all women, 10.2% were examined by Papanicolaou test for the first time, 56.1% for annual control. The spontaneous seeking by the examination was 79%. Among the women investigated, 0.6% have not known about the neoplasia. Part of them believes in cure and prevention of this disease, 79.6% and 89.2% of the women, respectively. 76.4% of the women have heard some information about HPV vírus and 40.2% about the vaccine. Therefore, is necessary to raise the level of knowing of women enrolled in Cervical Cancer Prevention Program (CCPP) in the perspective of primary and secondary prevention of this neoplasia through of educational activities and the insertion of these actions in the elementary and high schools. These are important steps that can contribute with the Program in Belém, whose indices have been alarming.
