CERVICAL CANCER SCREENING: ADHESION AND CLINICAL PROFILE IN A LOCAL CAMPAIGN

Cervical cancer is a chronic degenerative disease that offers a high degree of morbidity and mortality. While it is possible prevent, constitutes a public health problem in developing countries. Objective: To evaluate the reasons that prevent the adhesion of patients to prevention campaigns. Methods: Cross-sectional study, developed by questionnaires to 32 patients that participated in a campaign to prevent cancer of the cervix, in a primary Health Center in Belo Horizonte. Result. Of the 53 invited women, 32 (60.37%) attended. The average age was 42 ± 15 years. The mean time of the last realization of preventive was 2.8 ± 3.7 years, and 5 patients had never taken the exam. The average menarche was 12.5 ± 1.9 years. 12 patients (37.5%) reported using contraception. Shame was cited by 46.88% as greater cause for non adhesion for the exam regularly, 21.88% reported unavailability on the day and/or time offered, 13.13% reported a lack of information. Six patients (18.75%) had gynecological complaints in the pre-test history. The cervix had no macroscopic changes in any of the women who underwent the examination. Schiller's test was not changed in any of the patients. Seven patients (21.8%) had a diagnosis, and 28.5% had candidiasis and 28.5% had dermatitis in vulva, 14.3% had ITU and suspected bacterial vaginosis in 28.7%. Conclusion: known the reasons that influence women not to perform preventive examinations for cervical cancer is an important step in defining tools for more effective interventions and appropriate to the real need of the female population.