Adesão das mulheres ao exame de prevenção do câncer de colo uterino: uma revisão integrativa

Abstract

The cervix cancer is a serious problem of public health. However the disease has a high potential of cure and prevention, and early detection is the best way to reduce the illness and death. Even with existing campaigns is still low the coverage of women who perform the preventive examinations, Papanicolau. In this sense this study aimed to perform an integrative review of national literature about women accession to the cytopathological cervix and propose efficient strategies to raise the reception of these women to do the examinations. This is an integrative review with search in the following databases: Latin-American and Caribbean Literature of Health Science (LILACS), Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) and Nursing Databases (BDENF). The sample of this study was consisted of 23 articles. It was concluded that there are many barriers in the execution of Pap smears, like fear, discomfort and misinformation about the examination and the disease. However some strategies can be performed in an attempt to improve adhesion to exam, such as, reorganize health services to better attend women, provide humanized and individualized care and even offer quality information about cervix cancer and its prevention. For this, the Health Family Strategy for their particular, is responsible and must contribute to the development of an efficient plan of action against the problem of non adhesion with Pap smears.