A méhnyakrák-szűrésen való részvételt befolyásoló tényezők ápolók körében

Introduction: In Europe cervix cancer is the seventh; and it is the second most frequent cancer in the age-group of 15-44 years old women. In Europe approximately 321.8 million women live as part of the above mentioned endangered age-group from among whom 59.931 women are diagnosed with cervix cancer and 29.812 women die of it. Health workers have an important role in prevention; while practicing their profession they appear as role models to their patients. Objectives: The purpose of our research is to reveal how nurses regard their state of health subjectively, how often they take part in PAP tests and if there is any difference in the motivation of Hungarian and German nurses to screening tests. Methods: A self-fill-in questionnaire was used in our cross-section research. The sample was taken with unknown probability and was formed by nurses from three hospitals: Frankfurt Diakonie Clinic, Stralsand Nursing Service in Germany and Zala County Hospital in the West-Transdanubian region of Hungary (N=210). Data processing was carried out by using SPSS 17.0 for Windows version. As in descriptive statistics we calculated average, standard deviation, frequency, odds ratio, correlation; as in mathematical statistics we used x2 tests; differences were considered to be significant by the value of p