ISSN 2756-3332
African Journal of Nursing and Midwifery ISSN 2198-4638 Vol. 2 (7), pp. 368-377, September, 2015. © International Scholars Journals
Full Length Research Paper
A study on the attitude and practice of female health workers towards cervical cancer screening in the university of Port Harcourt teaching hospital, Rivers state, Nigeria
*1Utomi V. Anderson, Umukoro Felicia2 and Abinabor B. Francis2
1Department of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, Babcock University, Nigeria.
2Department of Community Health, Faculty of Nursing, Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Nigeria.
*Corresponding Authors E-mail: [email protected]
Accepted 9 August, 2015
Abstract
The purpose of the study was to examine the attitude and practice of female health workers towards cervical cancer screening (CCS) in the university of Port Harcourt teaching hospital, Rivers state. The descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. A sample size of 352 was used for the study. A self structured questionnaire was the instrument used for data collection. The reliability indices were established using Test-retest. The scores obtained were correlated using Pearson’s product-moment coefficient of correlation to obtain the reliability co-efficient (r) of 0.94 which was considered adequate. Data analysis was done using statistical soft ware package, for Social Sciences version 20.0. Descriptive statistics of percentages, mean, standard deviation and mean cut-off criterion of 2.5 as well as inferential statistics (chi-square and Analysis of variance) were used to analyze the data. Findings showed that the female health workers have negative attitude and poor practice of CCS. The p-value was greater than 0.05 in nine 9 out of 13 items, therefore the null hypothesis was accepted while the alternate hypothesis was rejected; we can conclude that there is no significant relationship between profession and attitude of female health workers towards the uptake of CCS.
Key words: Cervical cancer screening, female health workers, attitude, practice.