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Item Knowledge of Human Papilloma Virus Self-sampling and Cervical Cancers Screening Uptake among Gynaecology Clinic Attendees in a Tertiary Hospital in Nigeria(Biomedical Communications Group, 2023) Oyedero, L. C.; Ndikom. C. M.; Ojo, I. O.Cervical cancer remains a significant contributor to global cancer-specific morbidity and mortality, despite being one of the most preventable and treatable cancers. Uptake and knowledge of cancer screening has remained low in developing countries. Therefore, this study investigated the level of knowledge Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) Self-sampling and Cervical cancers screening uptake among gynaecology clinic attendees in Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. A cross-sectional design was employed in the study. A total of 256 respondents were selected using simple random sampling technique from two tertiary institutions in Osun State, Nigeria. A semi-structured questionnaire was used to collect data on the knowledge of HPV Self-sampling and cervical screening uptake from the respondents. Data were analysed and presented in percentages and association between variables were tested with logistic regression, chi-square and fisher’s exact test at 0.05 level of significance. The mean age of the respondents was 35.8±9.7 years, age of sex initiation for almost half (48.2%) of the respondents was between 21 and 25 years. Also, 66% of the respondents had not been screened of cervical cancer and 62.9% do not have enough education on self-sampling. However, 75.4.0% had poor knowledge on HPV self-sampling while 21.5% believed only sexually active women can only engage in self-sampling. There was a significant association between socio demographic, utilisation and knowledge of self-sampling for HPV. The study revealed poor knowledge on Human Papilloma Virus self-sampling and low screening uptake. Therefore, there is a need to strengthen the self-sampling knowledge among women for future screening.Item Willingness to Utilize Cervical Cancer Screening Services Among, Antenatal Clinic Attendees in Selected Hospitals in Ibadan, Nigeria(SciTechnol, 2014) Ndikom, C. M.; Ofi, B. A.; Omokhodion, F."Introduction: Women of childbearing age who are sexually active are at risk of Cervical Cancer (CC), since they may have been exposed to Human Papilloma Virus. Majority of the women with invasive cervical cancer were never screened for this disease which is known to be a major cause of cancer deaths among women, especially in developing nations. This study sought to determine willingness to utilize Cervical Cancer Screening Services (CCSS) among Antenatal Clinic (ANC) attendees in Ibadan, Nigeria. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in selected hospitals in Ibadan. Systematic random sampling was used to select 846 women attending ANC in the Hospitals. Data were collected from the respondents using validated structured questionnaire. Data were analysed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) and hypotheses were tested using Chi-square test at P≤0.05. Results: The women’s mean age was 27.9 ± 5.8 years. Majority, 94.8% were married, 49.1% had secondary school education and 64.2% were traders. Also, majority (68.0%) earned less than 10,000 naira/ month. Awareness of CC was quite low as 84.4% had never heard of cervical cancer while only 15.6% were aware of it. Over 73.6% of the women were willing to utilize CCS services but Uptake of CCS was 2.1%. Perceived hindrances to uptake were non-availability of CCS services, lack of information on CCS and cost of services among others. There was a significant association between awareness and willingness to utilize CCS services (P=0.000) as well as educational level and willingness to undergo screening (P =0.019). There was no significant association between age and willingness to utilize CCS services (P=0.834). Conclusion: There was high level of willingness but utilization of Cervical Cancer Screening Services was low among the women. There is need to provide more information on cervical cancer screening as well as make the services available at reduced cost.Item 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.Item 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.