RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

Table 1 shows age wise distribution of the female participants in the study total of 150 participants involved in
the study.

The age wise female population ranges from, 15 women belonged to the age group of 10-20years which
contributed to 10% of the population involved in the study;26 women were in the age group of 21-30 which
made up 17.3% of the population; 32 women were in the age group of 31-40 (21.3%); 36 women were in the
age group of 41-50 (24%); 28 women were in the age group of 51-60 (18.66%); 10 women were in the age
group of 61-70 (6.66%); 3 women were in the age group of 71-80 which made up the 2% of the remaining
population; 0 women were involved in the age group of 81-90 (0%).

Sl.n Age in years Number of participants Percentage %

o
1 10-20 15 10%
2 21-30 26 17.3%
3 31-40 32 21.3%
4 41-50 36 24%
5 51-60 28 18.66%
6 61-70 10 6.66%
7 71-80 3 2%
8 81-90 0 0%

Table 1: Age wise distribution of the female participants.

 Table no 2 shows literacy wise distribution of the participants out of which 38 women with percentage of
25.4% were literates and 112 women with percentage of 74.6% were illiterates out of 150 participants.

s.no LITERACY STATUS NUMBER PERCENTAGE %

1 Literates [L] 38 25.3%

2 Illiterates [ill] 112 74.6%
3 Total [L+ill]= 150 100%

Table no 3 shows the personel behavior wise distribution of the study population; in which 20 with the
percentage of 13.4% women were into the habit of smoking and 35 with percentage of 23.4% women indulged
in consuming alcohol. The remaining population of 95 women with the percentage of 63.2% was non smokers
and did not consume alcohol.

Status Total
Smoking 20
Alcoholic 35
Total 150
Table number 4 shows the reasons women avoided regular check-ups on gynecological health, 98 women with
percentage of 65.4% avoided the testing due to lack of awareness, 22 women with the percentage of 14.6%
avoided tests due to financial straining, 13 women with the percentage of 8.6% avoided screening because
taboos around women health, 12 women with the percentage of 8% avoided due to the fear of being diagnosed,
5 women with the percentage of 3.4% were simply not interested in the diagnosis.

Sl.no Reasons for avoiding screening Number of women Percentage

%
1 Lack of awareness 98 65.4%
2 Financial straining 22 14.6%
3 Taboo’s around women health 13 8.6%
4 Fear of being diagnosed 12 8%
5 Not interested 5 3.4%

Total = 150 participants.

Table number 5 shows the number of women who were encouraged to undergo Pap smear test, mammography,
diagnostic test for cervical cancer, breast cancer and uterine cancer after counseling, 146 women with the
percentage of 97.3% out of 150. 4 women with the percentage of 2.7% were not willing to undergo Pap smear
test.

Sl.no Participants Number of women Percentage %

1 Encouraged 146 97.3%
2 Not willing to 4 2.7%

Table number 6 shows number of female population that was aware about breast self examination and
practice.127 of women with the percentage of 84.6% are not aware about BSE practice, 23 women with the
percentage of 15.4% are aware about BSE but not practicing, 0% women were aware and practicing.

Sl.n Participants who : Number of Percentage %

o women
1 Aware about BSE and practicing 0 0%
2 Aware about BSE but not practicing 23 15.3%
3 Not aware 127 84.7%
total 150 100%
Table number 7 shows number of women who were encouraged to take HPV Vaccine. 142 women with the
percentage of 94.6% were willing to take the vaccine. 8 women did not want to take the vaccine due to financial
straining and cost of the vaccine.

Sl.n Participants who : Number of women Percentage %

o
1 Encouraged to take the vaccine 142 94.6%
2 Did not want to take the vaccine 8 5.4%

Table 8 shows number of women who were encouraged to perform BSE after counseling, 150 out of 150
women was willing to perform BSE regularly and record their observation, indicating 100% accuracy in
understanding and awareness on breast cancer.
Sl.n Participants who : Number of women Percentage %
o
1 Encouraged to perform BSE 150 100%
regularly
2 Did not want to practice BSE 0 0

Table no 9 shows the number of suspected cases for gynecological cancer .4 women out of 150 women were
suspected cases for have gynecological cancer.

Sl.n Participants who : Number of women Percentage %

o
1 Non suspected 146 97.4%
2 Suspected cases 4 2.6%

Table number 10 shows the number of positive and negative feedbacks from the participants after the
counseling.
Sl.n Participants who gave Number of women Percentage %
o
1 Positive feedback 100 100%
2 Negative feed back 0 0%
Conclusion

The present study concludes that in India women gynecological health is considered as a personal rather than a
more serious subject to create awareness about, the taboos around women reproductive health have grown to be
a part of women’s life up to a point where it is neglected and avoided until the problem is life threatening, there
are various factors that affect delayed screening of gynecological cancer; like negligence, fear of being
diagnosed, taboos around reproductive health, lack of encouragement, financial straining and most importantly
lack of awareness on gynecological health topics. In this study knowledge, attitude, practice survey was
conducted to asses 150 female study population from rural and urban areas to understand the nature and
perspective of women towards gynecological cancers and to create awareness about the serious outgrowing
cancer reach. The study shows that most of the 65.5% of the population was avoiding screening due to lack of
awareness , with few being reasons like financial straining and others. Study also indicated that women who are
familiar to the gynecological cancer topics as well as breast self examination completely neglected undergoing
early screening and practicing BSE due to lack of awareness and understanding the depth of cancer cause
problem. BSE must be performed on a regular basis, by creating awareness not only we can encourage women
to understand it better as well as it helps them being consistent, few recommended was to improve consistency
in performing BSE is by maintain records of what they observe during BSE, regular reminders, women to
women encouragement, active participation can help in increasing regularity of performing BSE. After
counseling sessions of cervical cancer awareness ;Women when questioned whether or not they would take the
preventive HPV vaccine against cervical cancer 94.6% were encouraged to take the vaccine where as 5.4%
showed hesitance regarding the cost of the vaccination .during the course of this study there were few cases
where women were at a higher than estimated risk of developing any of the gynecological cancers, such
suspected cases were advised to undergo further diagnosis to ensure early detection; early detection of cancer
reduces the risk of future complications as well as reduces the mortality rate by increasing treatment efficiency;
the main focus of this study was to ensure alertness of women to prevent and protect themselves from cancers
and its dreadful effects. Various counseling sessions were conducted along with distribution on awareness
leaflets on the gynecological cancer prevention and information topics along with directions to perform BSE
along with warning signs; a counseling session was done to ensure the understanding of the participant for
which 100 percent of the participants reported a positive feedback after the counseling session.