RELATED KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE TOWARD ACCEPTANCE OF CERVICAL CANCER SCREENING IN SUB WONOSARI ADULT WOMEN AND DISTRICT DISTRICT GUNUNGKIDUL Danurejan YOGYAKARTA
ABSTRACT: Early detection is the crucial thing to do as the preventive action of cervical cancer progress further. The examples of detecting methods are Pap smear and IVA. The society’s awareness of the importance of cervical cancer screening is needed. Therefore, the aim of this study is to find out the knowledge, attitude, and acceptance level and the relationship between the knowledge and attitude toward cervical cancer screening acceptance for women in Wonosari, Gunungkidul and Danurejan, Yogyakarta. This study is descriptive analytical research using cross sectional design. The data were taken using purposive sampling while the data instrument was questionnaires. A hundreds correspondents took part in this research. Then, the data were analyzed statistically using frequency descriptive analysis. For knowing the relationship, the researcher used crosstab and chi square. The finding of this study shows that 68% respondents had high knowledge, 57% had positive attitude and 90% respondents had an intention to do the cervical cancer screening. The experience frequency of cervical cancer screening has a significant relationship toward the knowledge level (p=0.019). There is no significant relationship between the attitudes and the experience frequency of cervical cancer screening (p>0.05). The frequency of cervical cancer information acceptance experience had a significant relationship toward the acceptance of cervical cancer screening (p=0.016). There is no significant relationship between the knowledge and the attitude (p=0.332) and between the attitude and the acceptance of cervical cancer screening (p=0.637). There is a significant relationship between the knowledge and the acceptance of cervical cancer screening (p=0.045).
