A prevenção do câncer de colo de útero e de mama em trabalhadoras técnico - administrativas (TAE) de uma universidade pública

Abstract

Cancer is a growing concern of the population, as has been gaining increasing in size and becoming an obvious problem of global public health. The National Cancer Control Policy aims to reduce the incidence and mortality of cancer by raising awareness of risk factors and measures for the early detection of cancers amenable to screening with access to fair treatment and quality. Given the importance of conducting research in this area this study aimed to analyze the preventive examinations of cancer of the cervix and breast cancer in employees Technical and Administrative Education (TAE) of a public university and its associated factors. To this was accomplished an epidemiological cross-sectional study with 399 TAE’s. As data collection instrument used a self-administered questionnaire with questions related to preventive examinations of cervical and breast cancer and sociodemographic factors, health and lifestyle habits. Data were analyzed using the statistical software Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) and Stata. For the outcome not for Papanicolaou the variables age group 60-69 years (PR 4.17 95% CI 2.47 to 7.04), have not been prevented from performing daily activities due to health problems in the last two weeks (PR 2.22 95% CI 1.04 to 4.75) and not be up to date with mammography (PR 5.00 95% CI 2.65 to 9.41) increased the likelihood of not being up to date or not perform the screening. Regarding the non-completion of the clinical examination of the variables adequate intake of vegetables breasts (PR 0.92 95% CI from 0.86 to 0.99), have one or more relatives with whom you can talk about almost anything (social network) (PR 0.85 95% CI 0.76 to 0.95) and have irregular working hours (PR 0.83 95% CI 0.75 to 0.91) decreased the probability of not conduct such an examination. Failure to perform or not keep up with mammography increased the probability of not doing clinical breast exam (PR 1.22 95% CI 1.14 to 1.30). As for the non-completion of mammography the failure to perform or not keep up with the Papanicolaou (PR 3.07 95% CI 5.08 1, 86) and clinical breast exam (PR 4.99 95% CI 2.61 to 9.53) increased the likelihood of also not perform the examination mammography. Stands out as well the importance of practice and encouragement cancer prevention actions in the population of working women in order to better health condition and quality of life for them.