Original Research Article
Year: 2018 | Month: April-June | Volume: 3 | Issue: 2 | Pages: 180-183
Pap Smear Screening and Sources of Information among Ever Married Women in Kota Warisan, Sepang, Selangor, Malaysia
Rubini Gopal Krishnan, Fatini Aina Mohamad Nasir, Siti Khadijah Mohd Mokhtar, Hamsa Laxmee Ramakrishnan, Noorhasriyantie Hassan, Ummi Atiqah Shamsuddin, Thivya Baskaran, Sabariah Abd Hamid
Faculty of Medicine, Cyberjaya University College of Medical Sciences, Malaysia
Corresponding Author: Sabariah Abd Hamid
ABSTRACT
Cervical cancer is the third most common cancer among women in Malaysia and causes 12.9% of all female cancers in Malaysia. However many studies show that women do not aware that this could be prevented through Pap smear screening. Therefore the purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of Pap smear screening and sources of information towards Pap smear among ever married women in Kota Warisan, Sepang.
A cross-sectional study was conducted among respondents who were selected through a simple random sampling. Respondents were interviewed using a set of questionnaire and data was analyzed using Statistical Package Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20.
Prevalence of the Pap smear screening among respondents studied was 57.1% with more than 50% had obtained information from healthcare personnel and media.
Therefore it is important to strengthen the activities on awareness by healthcare providers and media as it contributed to higher prevalence on Pap smear screening among ever married women.
Keywords: pap smear, screening, sources of information, married women