GONÇALVES, Jéssica Nayara Rodrigues.
Abstract:
Cancer of the cervix is considered a public health problem due to the increasing numbers of cases that arise each year with late diagnosis. In recent decades, significant gains importance in lieu of the significant changes in the framework of morbidity and mortality of women. The priority age group for early detection of cervical cancer is 35 to 49 years of age, a period that corresponds to the peak incidence of precursor lesions and precedes the peak cancer mortality. In this sense, the study aimed to conduct an integrative review of national literature about the practices and knowledge of women about the Pap smear in nursing and public health. This research is a systematic review of scientific literature on modality called integrative review. A search online the following combinations of terms was performed: nursing exam and Pap smear; Pap smears and public health; Pap smears and public health and nursing, the following electronic databases: Scientific Electronic Online (SciELO), Latin American and Caribbean Literature on Health Sciences (LILACS), Database of Nursing (BDENF) Collects and SUS. For the year of publication of the studies, we observed a greater number of publications in the year 2012 with 27% of the studies, followed by the years 2009 and 2011 with the percentage of 13% in both years. Regarding methodological approach, quantitative showed a greater percentage (48%), giving a qualitative survey sequence (17%). Observed in the survey that there was a predominance of authors graduates with 44%. We emphasize a concentration of publications originating from the Northeast (35%) and Southeast (35%). After reading the posts, the summary of the results led to discussion of three subcategories: Frequency of achievement of preventive screenings; Reasons that influence not the preventive test for women; Health education as a strategy to increase the adherence of women to screening. To decrease the taxpayers for not undergoing the Pap factors knowledge and a good relationship between users and professionals as well as greater effectiveness in health practices and strategies for health education is needed.
