Hubungan Pengetahuan dan Sikap pada Pasangan Usia Subur (PUS) Terhadap Perilaku Pemeriksaan Pap Smear di RSUP H Adam Malik Tahun 2023

Backgriund : Examination using a Pap smear is an initial examination so that mortality resulting from cervical cancer can be reduced when examined in the laboratory. According to the World Health Organization based on estimates of incidence, mortality and prevalance of Global Ocation Cancer in 185 countries with 36 types of cancer based on sex and age group. Based on the results of research conducted by the Indonesian Ministry of Health in 2020 regarding the percentage of participation of women of childbearing age in the early detection of cervical cancer as much as 8.3% nationally through the pap smear method. When conducting the initial survei conducted here, the researcher gave interviews to 20 PUS respondents at H Adam Malik General Hospital. Methods : The type of research used in this research is an analytic survei with a cross-sectional research design where this research is conducted at the same time (Sugiyono & Puspandhani, 2020). The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between knowledge and attitudes of PUS towards the Pap Smear examination. The population in this study were all fertile famale couples at H Adam Malik General Hospital in Medan. In this study, the number of samples based on this formula with a population and sample size of 70 samples. Results : The resukts showed that knowledge had a reltionship with Pap Smear examination behavior, with P-value = 0.005 (<0.05) and Attitude had a
relationship with Pap Smear examination behavior, with P-value = 0.018 (<0.05). Conclusions : There is a significant realtionship between the relationship between PUS knowledge and Pap Smear examination behavior with P-value = 0.005 < α
0.05 and There is a significant realtionship between the relationship between PUS attitudes and Pap Smear examination behavior at H Adam Malik General Hospital in 2023 with P-value = 0.018 < α 0.05
Keywords : Begavior, Knowledge, Attitude, Pap Smear.