Factors Related to Pap smear screening of Housewives in Banloung Sub District, Chomtong District, Chiang Mai Province

Abstract

             The purpose of this Survey Research is to study the behavioral tendency in receiving Pap Smear Screening, factors related to Pap Smear Screening, and relationship between these factors in 217 housewives from Banloung Subdistrict, Chomthong District, Chiang Mai Province. The required information was collected with constructed questionnaire before being analyzed with statistic procedures for percentage, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, and chi-square relationship. The result showed that, within the past 3 years, 61.75 percent of the sample group had annually received Pap Smear Screening with factors which had the influence on encouraging them to receive the test including Perception on the risk of the disease and its severity, Influencing variable on Psychosocial, Encouraging measures, and Perception on its benefits and obstacles. Regarding their perception on the risk of the disease and its severity, the relationship between these factors was found in the group who had received the test with statistical significance of 0.05. Same 0.05-level of significance can also be found on the relationship between Pap Smear Screening and other associated factors of variables on Psychosocial and encouraging measures in both groups while the relationship between the tendency of receiving Pap Smear Screening and their perception on its benefits and obstacles from both groups showed a significant relationship of the factors with statistical significance of 0.05