Abstract:
The purpose of the study was to examine the attitude and practice of female health workers towards cervical cancer screening (CCS) in the university of Port Harcourt teaching hospital (UPTH), Rivers state. The descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. A sample size of 352 was used for the study. This sample size was approximately 40% of the target population. This sample was considered representative of the population with an accurate level of more than 97%. A self-structured questionnaire was the instrument used for data collection. The validity of the instrument was ascertained by the project supervisor and two (2) other senior lecturers one being a specialist in measurement and evaluation.The reliability indices were established using Test-retest. The scores obtained were correlated using Pearson’s product-moment coefficient of correlation to obtain the reliability co-efficient (r) of 0.94 which was consideredadequate. Data analysis was done using statistical software package, for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20.0. Descriptive statistics of percentages, mean, standard deviation and mean cut-off criterion of 2.5 as well as inferential statistics (chi-square and Analysis of variance (ANOVA)) were used to analyse the data. Findings showed that the female health workers have negative attitude and poor practice of CCS. Profession has no influence on their attitude and practice.
