title: [Preventive screening for cancer of the uterine cervix: awareness and meaning for employees in a public nursing school].
abstract: This is an exploratory descriptive study, carried out at a nursing school, in which 63 non-teacher workers participated. Its objectives were to check their knowledge about screening of cervix-uterine cancer and to know their feelings and expectations as they undergo this test. A questionnaire was used to collect data and the last question was recorded and analyzed using the social phenomenology theoretical framework. The answers provided information which made it possible for us to rethink about adequate assistance guided by humanized actions considering the being in this existential entirety and belonging to a social economical cultural context.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem Materno-Infantil e Psiquiátrica da EEUSP.
authors.forename: Miriam Aparecida Barbosa
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Merighi
authors.forename: Lina
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hamano
authors.forename: Lubiana Guilherme
authors.initials: LG
authors.lastname: Cavalcante
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001294:Attitude to Health; D001938:Brazil; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D012579:Schools, Nursing; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014626:Vaginal Smears / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*