Prevalence and factors associated with Visual Acetic Acid (VIA) positive results among clients screened for cervical cancer at Bugando Medical Centre, Mwanza, Tanzania (Record no. 21922)
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| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Bahatisha, Mohamedy |
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| Dates associated with a name | CUHAS/MD/4001846/T/16 |
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| Title | Prevalence and factors associated with Visual Acetic Acid (VIA) positive results among clients screened for cervical cancer at Bugando Medical Centre, Mwanza, Tanzania |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Mwanza, Tanzania: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences [CUHAS - Bugando] |
| -- | Phone: +255 28 298 3384 : |
| -- | Fax: +255 28 298 3386 : |
| -- | Email: vc@bugando.ac.tz : |
| -- | Website: www.bugando.ac.tz : |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | ©2021 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | x; 28 Pages |
| Extent | Includes Refferences and Appendices |
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| Summary, etc. | Abstract: <br/><br/>Introduction: Cervical cancer is the fourth most frequent cancer in women with an estimated 570,000 new case in 2018 representing 6.6% of all female cancers. Approximately 90% of deaths from cervical cancer occurred in low-and middle – income countries. Without urgent attention, death due to cervical cancer are projected rise by almost 25% over the next 10 years.<br/><br/>Methods: A retrospective study was employed, where by 396 woman screened for cancer of cervix were involved in this study. Data was collected by using checklist and data entry was done in excel and analyses using SPSS. The p-value of 0.05 with 95% confidence interval was employed to measure the power of the study.<br/><br/>Results: A total of 396 clients were involved in this study where by 384(97%) had no lesion under visual inspection with acetic acid, 8(2%) and 4(1%) had medium and small respectively under visual inspection with acetic acid while 384(97%) were not eligible for cryotherapy while 12(3%) were eligible for cryotherapy.<br/><br/>Conclusion: The study confirms that the age at first sexual intercourse, history of multiple sexual partners, history of HIV positive and STIs are the risk factors for precancerous cervical lesions. Women who screened from September to December 2020 at BMC only twelve (3%) had lesion under visual inspection with application of 5% acetic acid. <br/> |
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| General subdivision | Obstetrics and Gynecology |
| 9 (RLIN) | 48284 |
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| 9 (RLIN) | 20667 |
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| MWALIMU NYERERE LEARNING RESOURCES CENTRE-CUHAS BUGANDO | MWALIMU NYERERE LEARNING RESOURCES CENTRE-CUHAS BUGANDO | 08/17/2021 | UD1880 | 08/17/2021 | 08/17/2021 | UNDERGRADUATE DISSERTATIONS |