Abstract

GONZALEZ RUBIO, Y.  and  CASTANO PINTO, M.ª S.. Descriptive study of cervix cancer screening in our Primary Health Care center: we do not accede the risk population. Medifam [online]. 2003, vol.13, n.2, pp.33-39. ISSN 1131-5768.

Backgrounds: since the immigrant population is increasing in our country and our zone of health, and has a higher incidence of cervix cancer, so, the possibility considers of knowing which is the situation of the screening of cancer of cervix in this population and comparing it with the local population.  Objective: to compare the percentage of accomplishment of vaginal cytology between the Latin American immigrant population and the local population of a Primary Health Care center.  Design: cross-sectional descriptive observacional study.  Material and methods: in an urban center of health, we studied the sample of 153 Latin American women immigrants and 153 Spanish women (aged paired sample) of 18 to 65 years, on which socio-demographics data and on the attendance to the Primary Health Care center and the accomplishment of cytologies and frequency took shelter. The data by percent comparison and Chi Square test were analyzed.  Results: there were significant differences between both groups in the percentage of women that had been made cytology (25.5% immigrants as opposed to 43.8% non immigrants). Also between that they had not been made it (58.8% as opposed to 41.2%). In the different aged intervals only there were differences in the one of 30 to 39 years.  Conclusions: since the immigrants women present/display a smaller percentage of accomplishment of cytology we would have to consider the way to improve this cover in this immigrant population, since when having one more a higher incidence of cervix cancer can be benefited more from the sifting program that the Spanish population.

Keywords : Cervix cancer; Vaginal cytology; Latin American women; Spanish women; Cover.

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