Adesão de acadêmicas de enfermagem quanto a prevenção do câncer do colo do útero.

Abstract

The cancer of the cervix is second among cancers that affect more females in the world. It is extremely important that women of childbearing age sexually active or not, they have inadequate life habits such as alcoholism, smoking, sedentary lifestyle or not, and especially women who have a history of any type of cancer in the family, perform Pap screening for investigation of early lesions that can develop into cancer of the cervix. The present study was conducted to challenge the applicability of knowledge about cervical cancer on women clarified and knowledgeable of the topic, as students of upper-level course in the area of health. This study aims to know the general membership of the Undergraduate Nursing students of the Federal University of Campina Grande campus Cajazeiras - PB as the prevention of cancer of the cervix. The research is descriptive quantitative approach. Data collection was conducted in April 2013 in the city of Cajazeiras, Paraiba, through the use of pre-structured questionnaire. The sample consisted of 113 women students from the Graduate Nursing, aged from 18 years of age, who were in the course of their academic activities. The analysis of data was done by tabulating the data descriptively. It can observe the large number of women who never underwent the screening test, 69 participants, as something that should be emphasized, because precisely these women are single and those that have stable relationship or open, with the number of 96 participants in all, and therefore are more prone to involvement of opportunistic diseases. Attention should be paid to the identification or the main factors related to the presence of this high rate, in order to rescue these young people about the risks of the emergence of cancer of the cervix in their lives.