Applicationof health belief model to improve early detection of cervical cancer among female officer employeesin Kafrelsheikh University / Heba Allah Abdelmaksoud Abdelmonsef ; Supervised Sahar Yassin Ibrahim Yassin , Mona Soliman Mohamed Ahmed , Hanaa Zaghloul Yousof Ali

Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Community Medicine

ervical cancer is the third most frequent cancer among females, and it is one of most main causes of cancer mortality among women globally. Despite the fact that they are generally preventable, over half a million new cases are reported each year around the world, the majority of which occur in underdeveloped nations. Aim of the study: The study aimed to improve knowledge, health beliefs and practices regarding cervical cancer screening among female officer employees in Kafr-El sheikh University through a health educational program. Study methodology : The study was an intervention study conducted at Kafr-El Sheikh University. It passed through three stages; baseline assessment of knowledge, health beliefs and practice regarding cervical cancer and its screening, intervention stage in which an educational program of cervical cancer and its screening practices was conducted, then re-evaluation to assess the post-intervention knowledge and practices.The most important results revealed that: most of the studied participants showed improvement in both total knowledge and total health beliefs of cervical cancer and its screening practices after the educational program than before.The mean total knowledge score increasing from 19.1±14.7 to 35.3±9.3 post-interventional and the mean total health beliefs score increasing from 26.43±6.18 to 37.91±5.52 post-interventional.There was a highly significant improvement in uptake to Pap test after the educational program as females practice of Pap test screening increased from 0.0% to 17.0%

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