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    Awareness and attitudes of women towards cervical cancer screeningin Oyo state, Nigeria
    (MA Healthcare, 2014) Bammeke, O. O.; Ndikom, C. M.
    "Cervical cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer deaths among women especially in the developing world. This study examined the awareness and the attitude of women towards cervical cancer screening in Agbowo Primary Health Centre in Ibadan, Nigeria. Using a cross-sectional study design and convenient sampling, a questionnaire was administered to collect data from 100 women who utilised postnatal and immunization services in the health centre. The hypotheses were tested using Pearson product moment correlation at significance level of P<0.005. The findings showed that the majority (52%) of the participants were aware of cervical cancer, 58% were aware of cervical cancer screening but only 5.0% had utilised cervical cancer screening services. There was significant positive relationship (r=0.369; P=0.001) between awareness and utilisation of cervical cancer screening services and educational background and utilisation of cervical cancer screening services (P=0.002) as well as economic status and use of the screening services (r=0.276; P=0.001). Attitude and uptake of cervical cancer screening services also showed a positive correlation (r=0.276; P<0.006) some of the factors that influenced uptake include lack of awareness about where to get screened, cost, attitude of health workers and delay in hospitals. The study has shown that cervical cancer screening uptake is still very poor, although, the awareness of cervical screening was fairly high. There is no doubt that education improve uptake of cervical cancer screening. There is still the need to create more awareness and make the services available so as to improve the uptake of cervical cancer screening.
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    Awareness, perception and factors affecting utilization of cervical cancer screening services among women in Ibadan, Nigeria
    (BioMed Central, 2012) Ndikom, C. M.; Ofi, B. A.
    Background: Over the years awareness and uptake of cervical cancer screening services has remained poor in developing countries. Problems associated with cervical cancer incidence include late reporting, ignorance and cultural issues relating to cervical cancer screening. This study sought to explore the awareness, perception and utilization of cervical cancer screening among women in Ibadan as well as factors that influence utilization. Method: This is a qualitative study that utilized Eight Focus Group Discussions to collect information from women in selected health facilities in Ibadan, South West, Nigeria. The 82 participants were purposely recruited from women attending Antenatal clinics in 4 secondary and 4 primary health care facilities after approval was received from the Institutional Review Board in charge of the facilities. The focus group discussions were tape recorded and transcribed verbatim. The transcripts were analyzed into themes. Findings: The study provided qualitative information on the awareness, perception of the utilization of cervical cancer screening services among women in Ibadan. Participants were mainly married women (92.7%), mean age =27.6, SD =4.5, mainly traders (39%) and from Yoruba ethnic backgrounds (87.8%) and had secondary education (39%). The respondents reported not being aware of cervical cancer and were not utilizing the services. Though they did not know what cervical cancer screening entailed or the screening methods, they still believed that it is important since like for other diseases will help in early detection and treatment. The participants were eager to get more information from nurses on cervical cancer about cervical cancer screening. The major factors identified by the women that influence screening utilization were ignorance, Illiteracy, belief in not being at risk, having many contending issues, nonchalant attitude to their health, financial constraint and fear of having a positive result. Conclusion: There is an urgent need for more enlightenment about cervical cancer especially by health workers. Also, cervical cancer services should be made available at very affordable cost so that women can easily access the services in order to reduce incidence of invasive cancer.
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    Perceived Need and Use of Pain Relief during Labour among Childbearing Women in Akinyele LGA, Ibadan, Nigeria
    (MA Healthcare, 2015) Ndikom, C. M.; Olejiya, T. E
    Background/Aims: Pain is the most common indication for women during labour. Yet, many women go through labour without any form of pain relief. The objective of this study was to determine the perceived need and use of pain relief during labour among childbearing women in Ibadan, Nigeria. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out among 144 women in the Akinyele Area in Ibadan, who were selected using a convenience sampling technique. A structured questionnaire was used to collect data from the women and data were analysed using chi-square testing. Results: The majority of respondents (83.4%) agreed that labour pain is distressing and 58.3% had never used pain relief during labour. Over 60% of women in the study desired pain relief during labour, but 52.8% were not aware they could ask for it. There was a significant association between prenatal pain relief information and use of pain relief (Fisher’s exact test, P<0.00) The perception of labour pain and the need to relieve labour pain were significantly correlated (Fisher’s exact test, P<0.001) Conclusions: Many women desire pain relief during labour; therefore, effort should be made to ensure proper interventions are in place to enable mothers to cope better with labour pain.