ABSTRACT
Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer among women worldwide. Cervical cancer is an abnormal growth in the lining of the cervix. The aim of this study is to assess the knowledge, attitude and uptake of cervical cancer screening among female secondary school teachers in Egor local government area of Edo state. A descriptive survey was employed in this study and simple random technique was used to select twelve public secondary school which are or secondary school, Federal government girls’ college, Iyoba girls’ secondary school, Government science technical college, Ohonre grammer school Boys College, Eweka secondary school, Uwelu secondary school, Uselu secondary school, Use secondary school, Edo boys high school, and Evbereke secondary school all in Egor local government area of Edo state. A well-structured questionnaire was distributed among two hundred and two female teachers which was analyzed statistically using SPSS (version 21) software and was presented in tables. The findings revealed that There is low level of knowledge of cervical cancer among the respondents in this study with 60(27.3%) female teachers has poor knowledge, 128 (58.2%) female teachers has a fair knowledge and 32(14.5%) has a good knowledge, On the attitude they had most respondents 125(56.8%) had negative attitude while the remaining 95 (43.2%) had a positive attitude, on uptake it shows that 22(95.7%) have good level of uptake while 1(4.3%) have fair level of uptake and on factors affecting cervical cancer screening. In conclusion, Uptake of cervical cancer screening among female secondary school teachers in Egor local government area of Edo state low, Majority of the respondents have not screened for cervical cancer while few have screened for cervical cancer. Hypotheses tested show the association between level of knowledge and level of attitude and also shows the association between socio-demographic characteristics and level of uptake. Hence, there is need to create policy support for the routine uptake of cervical cancer screening and include cervical cancer and its screening in appropriate pre service and in-service curricula and trainings and provide support for training. Keywords: knowledge, uptake, factor, cervical cancer screening and female teachers.
