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Socio-economic determinants of pap smear screening among married women in Peninsular Malaysia
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Aziz, Azlan and
Azman, Nur Airena Aireen and
Mahmud, Adzmel and
Abdul Hamid, Rosdiana and
Khairuddin, Lailina and
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Year:  00/02/2013
Abstract:  This study is to identify the influences of socio-economic factors towards the practice of Pap smear screening among ever married women. Bivariate correlations and logistic regression analysis was applied to the data set containing 3,283 ever married women age 15-49 years, interviewed during the Fourth Malaysian Population and Family Survey, 2004. It was found that only half the women had undergone Pap smear screening prior three years of survey, in which Chinese had the highest percentage of Pap smear screening. The logistic statistical analysis also had identified several variables has important determinant has of Pap smear screening for ever married women. Finding from this study suggest a significant relationship between the cervical cancer awareness and knowledge, age and ethnicity for those women who practice Pap smear screening.
 
 
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