Behavioral intention for cervical cancer screening and related factors in women -- A comparison between nurses and female employees of manufacturing industries

• Main Authors: Kuei-Nu Chou, 周貴女
• Other Authors: Hsiu-Hung Wang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/26428262281986894309

碩士 === 高雄醫學大學 === 護理學研究所碩士班 === 93 === This study is to discuss and compare relationships to several variables between two sampling populations, clinical nursing staff and female employees in the manufacturing industry. This research adopts questionnaires designed with a cross-sectional and correlative structure. There are 220 questionnaires from one medical center and one regional teaching hospital collected, and another 220 from nine manufacturing factories in Kaohsiung area. Among these, 406 are valid samples. The major findings include: 70.2% of nursing staff and 72.6% of female manufacturing employees investigated do have the behavioral intention to take cervical cancer screening; there is no difference between these two groups. The results of t-tests indicates that, nursing staff scores significantly higher over female manufacturing employees in some predisposing factors, such as knowledge of cervical cancer risk factors, knowledge of HPV and knowledge of Pap smear, as well as in one enabling factor, health service condition, but significantly lower in other predisposing factors, like cervical cancer perception and attitudes towards Pap smear, as well as in one reinforcing factor, clues to promote cervical cancer screening. There is no significant difference between two groups in one enabling factor, personal ability for testing information, and in the dependent variable, behavioral intention of cervical cancer screening. There is only low correlation between the dependent variable, behavioral intention of cervical cancer screening, with some predisposing factors, like knowledge of Pap smear and attitudes towards Pap smear, with some enabling factors, like health service condition and personal ability for testing information, as well as with one reinforcing factor, clues to promote cervical cancer prevention tests. ANCOVA analysis indicates that, taking health service condition as the covariance variable results in a statistically significant difference: nursing staff appears to have lower behavioral intention of cervical cancer screening than female employees in the manufacturing industry. Also a statistically significant difference exists in behavioral intention of cervical cancer screening with basic terms like marriage statuses, sexual experience, sexual mate numbers, pregnancy experience and condom using. Two-way ANOVA analysis indicates that, in certain circumstances such as more education, smoking and no exposure to secondhand smoke in workplace, nursing staff still has a significantly lower behavioral intention of cervical cancer screening than the other group. The factor, attitudes towards Pap smear, is the major predictor about behavioral intention of cervical cancer screening in these two sampling populations. Although nurses possess the medical advantage professionally, but their attitudes and behavior towards prevention and health care are worse than the other group. We suggest that nurses should set good examples to practice cervical cancer screening, so as to be the benchmark for all women, directors of health education, navigators of health promotion, and advocates of woman health.