Open J Public Health | Volume 4, Issue 1 | Research Article | Open Access

Assessment the Prevalence and Associated Factors with Uptake of Visual Inspection of Acetic Acid for Cervical Cancer Screened in Eastern Ethiopia

Kindukebede Gebre1* and Shimelskebede Gebre2

1Department of Statistics, College of Computing and Informatics, Haramaya University, Ethiopia 2Departments of Software Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

*Correspondance to: Kindukebede Gebre 

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Abstract

Background: Cervical cancer is one of the most preventable and treatable forms of cancer, as long as it is detected early and managed effectively. Cervical cancer is arising from the cervix, and it is due to the abnormal growth of cells. The main objective of this study was assessment the prevalence and associated factors with the uptake of visual inspection of acetic acid for cervical cancer screened in Eastern Ethiopia which implemented in statistical package IBM SPSS version 20. Methods: Cross-sectional study design was used from the cervical cancer patients in Jugel Hospital, Harar, Ethiopia. This study used a chi-square test of independence, and risk ratio to compare the risk of cervical cancer for the associated predictors which were a history of sexually transmitted infections, and human immunodeficiency test results. Results: This study shows immunodeficiency test results, and sexually transmitted infections associated with cervical cancer screened results at alpha equal to 5%. Study shows women who had a history of sexually transmitted infections (54%) and women who lived with human immunodeficiency (61.1%). The risk of cervical cancer in women who lived with human immunodeficiency appears to be 1.075 times higher than the risk in women who lived without human immunodeficiency. The prevalence rate measures the number of women in the study subjects who have cervical cancer at a given time was 43%. Conclusion: This finding concludes the risk to develop cervical cancer in women who lived with human immunodeficiency and those who had a history of sexually transmitted infections were high. The 43% of the women who participated in this study were affected by cervical cancer from December 2018 to December 2020. Hence, intervention should be given to the patients who lived with human immunodeficiency and those had a history of sexually transmitted infections for minimizing the risk.

Keywords:

Cervical cancer; Chi-square test; Risk ratio; Prevalence rate; Jugel hospital; Ethiopia

Citation:

Gebre K, Gebre S. Assessment the Prevalence and Associated Factors with Uptake of Visual Inspection of Acetic Acid for Cervical Cancer Screened in Eastern Ethiopia. Open J Public Health. 2022; 4(1): 1029..

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