Cervical Cancer Screening and Its Associated Factors Among North Korean Defectors Living in South Korea |
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| Authors: | Jeongok Park HeesSook Kim Wonhee Yang HaeWon Lee Sang Min Park |
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| Affiliation: | 1.College of Nursing, Mo-Im Kim Nursing Research Institute,Yonsei University,Seoul,South Korea;2.Department of Nursing,Dongnam Health University,Suwon-si,South Korea;3.University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,Chapel Hill,USA;4.Institute for Health and Unification Studies, School of Medicine,Seoul National University,Seoul,South Korea;5.Department of Biomedical Sciences and Family Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital,Seoul National University College of Medicine,Seoul,South Korea |
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| Abstract: | North Korean defectors (NKD) have many health problems related to insufficient nutrition, trauma from escaping, and being exposed to infectious diseases, but little research exists on their cancer screening. A total of 638 NKD participated in this cross-sectional survey. South Korean natives (SKN) who participated in the Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey V were selected using age matching to each NKD. Fisher’s exact tests and logistic regression were used for data analysis. The cervical cancer screening rate of NKD was significantly lower than for SKN (42 and 70?%, respectively; P?
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