Cervical cancer : university students knoweledge

• Autor(a) principal: Lima, Chirlei Aparecida de
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Amaral, Juliana Gimenez, Oliveira, Patrícia Peres de, Santos, Walquíria Jesusmara dos, Rodrigues, Andrea Bezerra, Aguiar, Maria Isis Freire de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)
• Texto Completo: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/23265
• topic: Prevenção de Câncer de Colo Uterino; Neoplasias do Colo do Útero; Cervix Neoplasm Prevention

Objective: to investigate the health area student’s knowledge and the cervical cancer prevention practice. Method: A descriptive and exploratory st udy, with the quantitative approach, conducted, from February to April 2014, convenience sample with 76 undergraduate students from the nursing, pharmacy, nutrition and physiotherapy course at a municipal private university in Sao Paulo/SP. The data analys is was descriptive. Results: 72.36% of the interviewed women affirmed to know the oncotic colpocytology finality and, the majority described it correctly. 81.57% had already passed through the preventive exam sometime, 35.52% considered the human papilloma virus as the main risk factor to the cervical cancer, 13.16% claimed that their familiar had cervical cancer. Conclusion: in their majority, the college health area students know and practice the cervical care prevention; however there were divergences in relation to the cervical cancer risk factors.