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Statistics is very prevalent in nursing, whether it comes from doing descriptive statistical analysis, running clinical trials, computing mortality rates, etc. By reading journal or research articles in the field of nursing, you will be able to see the wide breadth of statistical techniques used to assess data collected, ultimately leading to improved and more efficient methodologies.
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Awareness and knowledge of cervical cancer and its prevention
among the nursing staff of a tertiary health institute in Ahmedabad,
Gujarat, India
V Shah1, S Vyas2, A Singh3, and M Shrivastava3
Department of Community Medicine, GCS Medical College, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Department of Community Medicine, AMC MET Medical College, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
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Smt NHL Municipal Medical College, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
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Correspondence to: V Shah. Email: [email protected]
Background: Carcinoma of the cervix is the second most common cancer in women worldwide, while it is the commonest cancer among
Indian women. Awareness regarding cervical cancer and its prevention is quite low amongst Indian women. The Pap test is a simple and
cost effective technique for early diagnosis of cervical cancer. It is necessary to make nursing staff aware of cervical cancer, so that they
can impart knowledge regarding cervical cancer and its prevention to the general public.
Aims and objectives: (1) To assess the knowledge level regarding symptoms, risk factors, prevention and screening of cervical carcinoma
among nursing staff. (2) To find out the behaviour of respondents regarding prevention and screening of cervical carcinoma.
Materials and methods: A cross-sectional interview-based survey regarding knowledge levels about cervical carcinoma was conducted
among the nursing staff from one of the tertiary health institutes of Ahmedabad, India. A structured questionnaire with multiple choices was
used for data collection. Provision for open-ended responses was also made in the questionnaire. Department-wise stratification was carried out, and thereafter 15% of the total nursing staff from all departments were selected randomly so as to include a total of 100 nurses
in the current study. Data entry was done in Microsoft Excel. SPSS statistical software was used to generate statistical parameters like
proportion, mean, standard deviation, etc. The Z test was used as a test of significance, and a P value of
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