Fatores associados à não realização do teste de papanicolaou em Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, 2008

Abstract

This study estimates the prevalence of Papanicolaou (Pap) testing according to socioeconomic, demographic, and health-related behavioral variables in the city of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, in women aged 18-65 years old realized in the last three years. This is a cross-sectional population base-study through Telephone-based surveillance of risk and protective factors for chronic diseases (VIGITEL, 2008). Data of 1.214 women was considered. The data was analyzed by means of software STATA, version 9.0. It was used regression of Poisson to verify the association enters not the accomplishment of the examination of Papanicolaou with the independent variable. The frequency of accomplishment of the examination between the women was of 76,43%. To be young; to possess low escolaridade; to live without friend; not to have carried through the mamografia examination; to declare as bad the health state and not to possess medical diagnosis of hipertensão had shown independent association with not the accomplishment of the test. The prevalence of the examination in Belo Horizonte was satisfactory, however insufficient to impactar in the profile epidemiologist of the cancer of the uterine col. She is necessary to fortify and to characterize the actions of necessary promotion of the health for bigger adhesion of the women who are not carrying through the examination of Papanicolaou.