The Effect of Social Support Perception on Attitude Towards Early Diagnosis of Cervical Cancer in Orthopedically Disabled Women

Year 2025, Volume: 18 Issue: 4, 487 - 498

Sidar Gül , Ayşegül Kılıçlı

Abstract

Background: One of the important factors affecting cervical cancer prevention behaviours of orthopedically disabled
women is the perception of social support.
Objectives: This study was conducted to examine the effect of social support perception on the attitude towards early diagnosis of cervical cancer in orthopedically disabled women.
Methods: The study, which was designed to be descriptive was carried out with 105 disabled women. The study was conducted with orthopedically disabled woman who were treatmented to the physical therapy and rehabilitation unit of a training and research hospital between March-December 2022. A descriptive information form, Attitude towards Early Diagnosis of Cervical Cancer Scale, and Multidimensional Perceived Social Support Scale were used to collect data. Descriptive statistical methods (mean, standard deviation), pearson correlation for relationship analysis, and linear regression analysis for effect level analysis were used in data analysis.
Results: The mean scores of Attitude towards Early Diagnosis of Cervical Cancer Scale was determined as 77.16±12.42 and the mean scores of Multidimensional Perceived Social Support Scale was 46.77±7.40. The effect of the perceived social support was found to be effective in increasing the attitude towards early diagnosis of cervical cancer (p = .001). The total perceived social support score explained 41.6% of the total variance in the dependent variable of attitude towards early diagnosis of cervical cancer.
Conclusion: Orthopedically disabled women with poor perceived social support had more negative attitudes towards cervical cancer screening. Therefore, health professionals should be aware of orthopedically disabled women’s social support and attitudes towards cancer when planning information and promotion programmes to promote attendance at screening cancer.

Keywords

Disabled Women , Early Diagnosis , Cervical Cancer , Social Support

Ethical Statement

The present study was carried out in the context of the Declaration of Helsinki. The ethics permission was granted by the Ethics Committee for Non-Interventional Clinical Research of XXX University (date of application: 5/01/2022, date of approval: 19/02/2022 and number: 2167). Written informed agreement was provided by the study participants.

Supporting Institution

The authors received no external or intramural funding.

Thanks

The authors thank all the women who shared their time and experience to participate in this study.

Sosyal Destek Algısı ve Serviks Kanserinin Erken Teşhisi: Ortopedik Engelli Kadınlar Örneği

Abstract

Giriş: Ortopedik engelli kadınların serviks kanserinden korunma davranışlarını etkileyen önemli faktörlerden biri sosyal
destek algısıdır.
Amaç: Bu araştırma, ortopedik engelli kadınlarda sosyal destek algısının serviks kanserinin erken teşhisine yönelik tutumu üzerine etkisini incelemek amacıyla yapılmıştır.
Yöntem: Tanımlayıcı olarak tasarlanan çalışma 105 engelli kadın ile yürütülmüştür. Çalışma, Mart-Aralık 2022 tarihleri arasında bir eğitim ve araştırma hastanesinin fizik tedavi ve rehabilitasyon ünitesinde tedavi gören ortopedik engelli kadınlarla yürütülmüştür. Veri toplamak için tanımlayıcı bilgi formu, Serviks Kanseri Erken Teşhisine Yönelik Tutum Ölçeği ve Çok Boyutlu Algılanan Sosyal Destek Ölçeği kullanılmıştır. Verilerin analizinde tanımlayıcı istatistiksel yöntemler (ortalama, standart sapma), ilişki analizi için pearson korelasyon, etki düzeyi analizi için linear regresyon analizi kullanılmıştır.
Bulgular: Serviks Kanserinde Erken Tanıya Yönelik Tutum Ölçeği puan ortalaması 77.16±12.42 ve Çok Boyutlu Algılanan Sosyal Destek Ölçeği puan ortalaması 46.77±7.40 olarak belirlenmiştir. Algılanan sosyal desteğin serviks kanserinin erken tanısına yönelik tutumu artırmada etkili olduğu bulunmuştur (p = .001). Toplam algılanan sosyal destek puanı, serviks kanserinin erken tanısına yönelik tutum bağımlı değişkenindeki toplam varyansın %41,6’sını açıklamaktadır.
Sonuç: Algılanan sosyal desteği zayıf olan ortopedik engelli kadınların serviks kanseri taramasına yönelik tutumları daha olumsuzdur. Bu nedenle, sağlık profesyonelleri kanser taramalarına katılımı teşvik etmek için bilgilendirme ve tanıtım programları planlarken ortopedik engelli kadınların sosyal desteklerinin ve kansere yönelik tutumlarının farkında olmalıdır.

Keywords

Engelli Kadınlar , Erken Tanı , Serviks Kanseri , Sosyal Destek

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