Results of the program to promote cervical cancer screening services for women aged 30-60 years Sawang Daen Din Subdistrict Community Health Center, Sawang Daen Din Crown Prince Hospital.

Abstract

     This quasi-experimental research aimed to study the effects of using a cervical cancer screening promotion program. The sample consisted of women aged 30-60 years in the Sawang Daen Din Community Health Center, Sawang Daen Din District, Sakon Nakhon Province, who had never received a cervical cancer screening service. They were divided into two groups by simple random sampling into an experimental group and a comparison group, with 40 participants in each group. The experimental group received activities according to the cervical cancer screening promotion program designed by the researcher, while the comparison group received regular services from public health officers. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics using numbers, percentages, means, and standard deviations (SD) and inferential statistics using a paired sample t-test, with a statistical significance level of 0.05.
     The results of the research found that the experimental group had higher mean scores of disease severity perception, disease risk perception, self-efficacy expectation, response effectiveness expectation, and social support than before the experiment, and the differences were statistically significant with a P-value < 0.001. When comparing the groups after the experiment, the experimental group had a statistically significant higher mean score than the comparison group with a P-value < 0.001. The proportion of cervical cancer screening in the experimental group was higher than the comparison group (5.7 times). In the experimental group, everyone came for cervical cancer screening, which was 100 percent, while only 7 people in the comparison group came, which was 17.5 percent.