THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CERVICAL CANCER SCREENING IN WOMEN TARGET GROUPS BY SUB-DISTRICT HEALTH PERSONNEL IN CONTRACTING UNIT PRIMARY CARE NETWORK OF NONGBUALUMPHU MAUNG DISTRICT.

Abstract

        The objectives of this survey research were to evaluate the effectivness of cervical cancer screening in women target groups by 63 sub-district health personnel  in  contracting   unit primary  care    network  of   nongbualumphu  maung  district and to explain the relationship between personal factor,knowledge about screening, attitude towards working,management resources and administration process. The data collection was done by using a questionnaire.The collected data was analyzed by mean of percentage,arithmetic mean,standard deviation,maximum value, minimum value, Chi-square Test and Pearson^,s Product Moment Correlation Coefficient with  the level of statistic significance (  a  )= 0.05.

        The  results showed that the effectiveness of cervical screening in women target groups by sub- district health personnel in  contrating   unit primary  care    network  of   nongbualumphu  maung  district feel at a level that required some improvement at 56.86 % ,kwonledge sub-district health personnel about cervical cancer screening was low at 90.2 % attitude towards this screening work was good at 74.56 % After analyzing the relationship between peronnal factor, e.g. gender,age,marriage status,level of education,present job title,income,working experience and training experience and training experience,it was found that these factors were not related to the effectiveness of cervical cancer screening in women target groups. In regard to the manpower factor and tool eguipment factor ,it was found that it was sinificantly related to the effectiveness of cervical cancer screening in women target groups at a statistic test level ( P= 0.009) and (p=0.017).The financial factor were not related to the effectiveness of cervical cancer screening in women target groups.In addition, the administration process was not related to the effectiveness of cervical screening in women target groups.

        The suggestion of this study is that health personnel competency should be developed in term of Knowledge, skills, techniques and methods of cervical cancer screening to enhance quality and to ensure accurate and constant screening .Executives should  give strong support to the workforce so that personnel, tool eguipment  are adequate and appropriate for this work.