Cultural beliefs influencing cervical cancer screening among women in a community healthcare centre
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description: Cultural beliefs influencing the uptake of cervical cancer screening among women in a community healthcare centre. 1.1 INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND Globally cervical cancer was found to be the fourth most common cancer among women in 2012. There were an estimated 528,000 new cases and approximately 266,000 female deaths of cervical cancer in 2012 worldwide. The Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) was being associated with about 70 percent of all cervical cancers (World Health Organization [WHO] 2015:43). In South Africa, cervical cancer is still the most common cancer diagnosed in women. Despite this fact, the uptake of cervical cancer screening in a designated community centre in the Tshwane district in the Gauteng Province of South Africa (SA) is low. 1.2 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY The purpose of the study was to explore and describe cultural beliefs influencing the uptake of cervical cancer screening among women in a designated community healthcare centre. 1.3 METHOD A qualitative descriptive design was used, as the researcher was interested in exploring and describing whether cultural health beliefs influence the uptake of cervical cancer screening. The study was conducted at a designated community healthcare centre, which is situated in a Pretoria West suburb in the Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality of the Gauteng Province in South Africa. The population were women who were 35 years and older who have not made use of cervical cancer screening services before, and who attend the selected departments for other reasons than for screening for cervical cancer. Purposive sampling was used to select participants as they visited the community health centre’s chronic as well as maternal child and women’s health services (MCHW) at mother and child healthcare departments. The researcher handed out fliers to all women patients of the departments. The fliers contained information about the study and the inclusion criteria for the sample. The researcher’s contact number was also included o…
abstract: Cultural beliefs influencing the uptake of cervical cancer screening among women in a community healthcare centre. 1.1 INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND Globally cervical cancer was found to be the fourth most common cancer among women in 2012. There were an estimated 528,000 new cases and approximately 266,000 female deaths of cervical cancer in 2012 worldwide. The Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) was being associated with about 70 percent of all cervical cancers (World Health Organization [WHO] 2015:43). In South Africa, cervical cancer is still the most common cancer diagnosed in women. Despite this fact, the uptake of cervical cancer screening in a designated community centre in the Tshwane district in the Gauteng Province of South Africa (SA) is low. 1.2 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY The purpose of the study was to explore and describe cultural beliefs influencing the uptake of cervical cancer screening among women in a designated community healthcare centre. 1.3 METHOD A qualitative descriptive design was used, as the researcher was interested in exploring and describing whether cultural health beliefs influence the uptake of cervical cancer screening. The study was conducted at a designated community healthcare centre, which is situated in a Pretoria West suburb in the Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality of the Gauteng Province in South Africa. The population were women who were 35 years and older who have not made use of cervical cancer screening services before, and who attend the selected departments for other reasons than for screening for cervical cancer. Purposive sampling was used to select participants as they visited the community health centre’s chronic as well as maternal child and women’s health services (MCHW) at mother and child healthcare departments. The researcher handed out fliers to all women patients of the departments. The fliers contained information about the study and the inclusion criteria for the sample. The researcher’s contact number was also included o…
language: en
keywords: UCTD, Culture
date published: 2019
date modified: 2026-07-24T03:52:34Z
provider: University of Pretoria
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: University of Pretoria

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