Assessment of knowledge،attitude and practice of women referred to health centers in the city of Qom Cervical Cancer in 2015

Cervical cancer is one of the most common cancers of the reproductive system that can be easily detected and treated at an early stage for a delay in diagnosis and treatment is difficult and the best way for early diagnosis of Pap test is a screening test and procedure done for health promotion Therefore, this study aimed to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice of women in the city of Qom.

Analytical descriptive cross-sectional study was done in 2015 on 237 women to multistage sampling The data collection tool was a valid and reliable questionnaire. According to the data using SPSS version 19 statistical tests at a significance level 05/0> p was analyzed.

11%(n=26) had a good knowledge and 5/59% (141) of the intermediate level, and 5/29% (70) has a low level, and 1/24% (57) of people with a good attitude and 1/75%(178patients) were positive attitude 8/0%(2patients) had a poor attitude. The result showed that 7/25% (61) in the last three years nothing to do pap test did3/52% (124) as irrelevant and only 9/21% (52) on an ongoing Pap capture perform have.

The result of this study due to the poor performance of about half those in the Pap smear and since the majority of samples were positive towards Pap smears also had moderate awareness, thus offering solutions to increase level of knowledge in raising the level of performance of women is necessary.