@article{Chumworathayi_Chumworathayi_2013, title={Why Thai women do not have cervical carcinoma screening test?}, volume={22}, url={https://li01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/SRIMEDJ/article/view/13186}, abstractNote={<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Background:</span></strong> Although modern Thai women have more education and knowledge, from variety sources of information including cervical cancer prevention, cervical cancer screening coverage rate in them is still low at only 5%. Therefore, limitation of their knowledge should not be the cause. Authors did this study to examine all <span style="text-decoration: underline;">the</span> causes remained after extensive health education given.</p> <p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Objective:</span></strong> To examine reasons why Thai women still do not have Pap smear after extensive health education was provided</p> <p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Method:</span></strong> We have examined reasons that might be the causes of Pap smear <span style="text-decoration: underline;">lack</span> after periodically educating 200 women, aged 35-60 years-old, in an inner city community for at least twice within 1 year and asking the ones who still did not have Pap smear at 8-12 months for their reasons.</p> <p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Design:</span></strong><strong> </strong>Interventional cohort by health education and descriptive study for their reasons of Pap smear lack</p> <p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Setting:</span></strong> Samliem inner city community, Khon Kaen, Thailand<strong></strong></p> <p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Result:</span></strong> At 8-12 months after extensive health education for at least twice, 63% (126/200) of educated women still did not have Pap smear. The reasons were as follows; busy (67.5%), embarrassment (32.5%) and no symptom (20.6%).<strong></strong></p> <p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Conclusion:</span></strong><strong> </strong>Thai inner city women are too busy to have Pap smears. Embarrassment is the second reason. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Screening-based</span> cervical cancer prevention programme still needs other supporting strategies to build up an occasion for them.<strong></strong></p>}, number={4}, journal={Srinagarind Medical Journal}, author={Chumworathayi, Pansu and Chumworathayi, Bandit}, year={2013}, month={Nov.}, pages={369–375} }