Willingness To Cervical Cancer Screening And Associated Factors Among Family Planning Receiving Women At Selected Health Centers In Addis Ababa Ethiopia.

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Background: Cervical cancer is a disease in which cervical cells become abnormal and begin to rndevelop uncontrollably forming tumors It is the first most common cancer in women living inrnSub-Saharan Africa. Cervical cancer is a disease that can be cured. Cervical cancer screening canrnreduce at least 50% of cervical cancer deaths. In Ethiopia, practice of cervical cancer screening isrnbelow 1%. In the presence of high risk for acquiring cervical cancer among family planningrnreceiving women, willingness of the screening is low in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Thus, therncurrent study was aimed, to assess the willingness towards cervical cancer screening andrnassociated factors among family planning users in selected the health center of Addis Ababa. rnMethod; An institution based cross-sectional study was conducted among 520 family planningrnservice users at selected health centers in Addis Ababa from June 2020-February 2021. Thernstudy participants were selected using a multistage sampling method. Descriptive analysis wasrndone and binary logistic regression was used to assess the association between the independentrnand dependent variable. A variable with p-value less than 0.25 was entered in to multivariablernlogistic regression model. Final the finding was reported by using adjusted and crude odds ratiornalong with a 95% confidence interval. rnResult: The willingness to have tested for cervical cancer screening among family planningrnservice users was 72.5%. The odd of cervical cancer screening willingness was three times morernlikely among women who had good knowledge about cervical cancer than those who had poorrnknowledge (AOR:3.18,95% CI:1.83-5.54). Women who attend higher education were threerntimes more likely willing to screening test than those who attend below that level (AOR: 2.54,rn95% CI: 1.02, 6.35). Having more than four children (AOR: 1.34, 95% CI: 1.10-3.38). rnConclusion: This study assesses the willingness of women to participate in cervical cancerrnscreening and explore the factors that affect their willingness. Accordingly, among womenrninterviewed, the study found that majority of them (72%) was willing to participate in cervicalrnscreening. The willingness of cervical cancer screening among respondents were affected by rnknowledge level toward cervical cancer, number of children a women had, education status ofrnwomen.

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Willingness To Cervical Cancer Screening And Associated Factors Among Family Planning Receiving Women At Selected Health Centers In Addis Ababa Ethiopia.

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