Prevalence of cervical cancer screening utilization and associated factor among 30-49years women who attend in marrystops and famlly gaidance moddel clinic in jimma town, south west Ethiopia

Abstract

Background: Cervical cancer is the malignant neoplasm of the cervix). Globally, there are nearly 1.5 million cases of clinically recognized cervical cancer. Eighty five percent (85%) of these are in developing countries like Ethiopia. Objective: The objective of this study was to asses prevalence of cervical cancer screening utilization and associated factor among 30-49years women in Jimma town, south west Ethiopia . Methods: An institutional based cross sectional study design was employed on 422 women of age 30-49years war include in the study from both family guidance association and Maries stops clinic through consecutive sampling technique Descriptive statistics and frequency Logistic regression analysis were done. Bivariate analysis with p-value <0.25 considered candidate for multivariate analysis and factors with p-value <0.05 at multivariate logistic regression were considered as significant. Result: Among 403 respondents, 309 (76.7%) of them were never screened. Mothers who were educated up to grade 5-8 were seven times (AOR=6.798) more likely not to be screened for cervical cancer compared to those with higher level of education. As the Knowledge level of women about cervical cancer increased by one unit surprisingly the chance of getting screening is decreased by 0.25times (AOR:.232.). Women with negative attitude towards the screening practice were 24 times (AOR=24.524) less likely not to be screened cervical cancer compared to those women with positive attitude. For women who had negative spouse support the chance of getting screening was decreased by two (AOR=.2.1811, 95% CI.078, 4.413) times as compared to positive spouse support. Conclusions and Recommendation This study showed that the proportion of screening for premalignant cervical lesions was 23.3%. Low educational level, poor attitude, negative spouse support, poor knowledge, poor provider suggestion and inconvenient time were significantly associated with the screening practice. Government and non-government organization emphasis on female education. Clinics more focused permanent screening time for researchers- to conduct further researches regarding this issue by using strong study designs like longitudinal studies, healthcare providers need to do promoting cervical cancer screening.