Mother's knowledge level about cervical cancer in East Jakarta area

Abstract

Objective

The objective was to describe mother's knowledge level about cervical cancer in mothers’ age between 35 and 50 years in East Jakarta area.

Method

This cross-sectional study was conducted in this study. One hundreed and three of mothers in east Jakarta were selected as participants by a consecutive sampling technique. This study conducted from June to August 2019. Questionnaire of mothers’ knowledge regarding cervical cancer was developed based on green. Construct validity and internal reliability were conducted among 23 mothers. Pearson Product Moment showed that correlation coefficient between item with total score was 0.467–0.948. Cronbach Alpha of mothers’ knowledge was 0.794.

Result

The study showed that most of the mothers had low knowledge (75.7%). The results of the study proved that 3 question etiology (66.01%), symptom (65.04%), and risk factors (66.69%).

Conclusion

Most of the older mothers 41 sd 45 have less knowledge about cervical cancer.