Health Literacy Effecting to Cervical Cancer Screening Among Women in Nongpaklong Sub-district, Nakhon Pathom Province.

Abstract

          This descriptive research study aimed to study health literacy effecti ng to cervical cancer screening among women. Population in this study co nsisted of 1,866 women aged 30–60 year in Nongpaklong sub-district,  Nak hon Pathom province, in 2020 fiscal year and the sample size calculating u sed Daniel formula for 320 cases, and systematic random sampling was de termining.  Data collected by questionnaires including; characteristic,  hea lth literacy,   cervical cancer screening by pap smear.   In addition to check questionnaire standardization,  validity was checked by  3 experts and try out testing reliability by Cronbach’s coefficient alpha about 0.96.  Data ana lyzed  using  statistical as Pearson product moment correlation coefficient and Stepwise multiple regression analysis. The resulted found that,  factor was associated with cervical cancer screening among women  in Nongpak long sub-district,    Nakhon Pathom province with statistic significant inclu ding; access skill (r=0.209, P-value<0.001)  communication skill (r=0.204, P-value<0.001) media literacy skill (r=0.211, P-value<0.001) decision skill (r=0 .274, P-value<0.001) self-management skill (r=0.223, P-value<0.001), respect ively.   Prediction model analyzed reported that factor effecting to cervical cancer screening for women aged  30–60 year such as; decision skill (P-val ue<0.001) and access skill (P-value=0.011), respectively. All predicting facto rs accounted for 36.4 (R2 =0.364).