Kiến thức và hành vi của phụ nữ từ 15-49 tuổi về phòng chống ung thư cổ tử cung tại 5 tỉnh Thái Bình, Yên Bái, Thanh Hóa, Nghệ An và Phú Yên

A descriptive study was conducted with 1080 women aged 15-49 at 60 communes of 19 districts in 5 provinces of Thai Binh, Yen Bai, Thanh Hoa, Nghe An and Phu Yen on January 2013 showed that: Only 3 percent of Interviewed women knew that the cause of cervical cancer was HPV; the mean score of women on symptoms of cervical cancer only reached 14.6/100 points; 4.7 percent of interviewed women could list at least 4 measures of cervical cancer prevention. Mostly women only were familiar to the two measures of cervical cancer prevention such as proper gynecology hygiene (71.2 percent) and periodic gynecological examination to detect cervical cancer early (64.7 percent); 8.9 percent of interviewed women gave correctly answer on the time for cervical cancer screening for women; 95.6 percent of women had ever visited HFs for gynecological examination; 42.7 percent of them visited periodically; 40.3 percent visited in the last time within under one year; 9.3 percent of women reported that they had ever screened to detect cervical cancer early, in which 42 percent of those were screened at CHCs by colposcopy and VIA 18 percent at the provincial hospitals, 6.0 percent at RH care centers and 1.0 percent at FP associations; 58.0 percent suggested that they were screened by colposcopy, 54.0 percent by Pap smear, 20.0 percent by VIA, 4 percent by VILI and 1 percent by HPV DNA.