[Survey the knowledge attitude and practice on papsmear in nurses and midwives]

ABSTRACT

Despite the easy of detection of cervical cancers in the pre-cancer stage, it is still one of the most common cancers in Iran and the world. The responsibility of womens education about this safe and unexpositive screening test is for nurses and midwives. Survey the knowledge, attitude and practice on Popsmear in nurses and midwifes in Alzahra Maternity Hospital. In this cross-sectional study, 80 Nurses and midwives of Alzahra maternity Hospital were studied. Data collection tool was a questionnaire designed in 5 section to determine their knowledge, attitude and practice. Chi- square, Mann- Whitney - U, Fishers exact test, Kruskal-Wallis and T - student test SPSS ver14 were used for statical analysis. Knowledge of 91.3% of participations was scored as "Good" and it was significantly different between nurses and midwives. 83.8% of them has "positive" attitude toward the test. There was no significant relationship between attitude, age, duration of occupation and marital status of two groups. Nurses and midwives were matched in terms of age; marital status and duration of occupation.42/9% were remarked to have [good] practice. With regard to Knowledge role of nurses and midwives in performing papsmear screening test it is necessary to improvement their education and compare their attitude and practice