Cervical cancer prevention

• Autor(a) principal: Pires, Maria João
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Outros Autores: Varandas, Maria de Lourdes
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34632/cadernosdesaude.2015.2852

Cervix cancer is an important problem for woman’s health being, nowadays, a pathology that can be avoided and controlled, once the risk factors are well known. Considering this, nursing strategies are of utmost importance in the context of primary and secondary prevention as well as the interventions upon the social determinants of health through an educational process for Health. The community intervention project held in ACES Central Lisbon, in a Health Familiar Cell had, as a general goal, to promote women ́s selfcare with ages between 20 and 64 years, enrolled in USF, concerning the preventive behaviours of HPV and CCU. The intervention develloped according to the methodology of Health Planning Process and Selfcare theory of Dorothea Orem. For the diagnosis of the situation, we used the appointed instrument: Cervix cancer – knowlege and behaviours. By the method of chart analysis, we gave priority to the identified problems which were expressed into nursing diagnosis stated in taxonomy CIPE – International Classification to the Nursing Practice R Version 2. We opted for the strategy of Education for Health, having in consideration the three domains of learning. The assessement of the intervention, according to the indicators of the process, and the established outcome turned out quite positive. It suggests alterations at a cognition level what leads us to admit future improvements in Health of the comprised population.