Exame citopatológico cérvico uterino: uma proposta de intervenção para a Estratégia Saúde da Família

Abstract

Whereas cervical cancer is a cancer that has a high incidence rate and mortality amenable to early detection and cure when early diagnosis is made, we seek to understand what leads women to non-adherence to cytological examination. Thus, the study aims to examine the factors that influencing a group of women have never done a cytological exam even after initiation of sexual activity and develop a proposal for intervention to improve adherence of women in this procedure. For this was made a narrative literature, which aimed to highlight the benefits of the cytological exam for women attended in Basic Health Units as well as the consequences and causes of non-adherence to this procedure was performed. The results point to possible causes of non-adherence to the examination: socio-economic and cultural aspects, embarrassment, shame, poor level of information about the severity of the condition and the importance of preventive screening, as well as the simplest way to achieve the same. As a final consideration, the study allowed emphasize that only through education and information women begin to understand about the importance of the examination as a preventive measure and accept their accomplishment.