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education earning an average income. They engaged themselves to motor vehicular accidents
and confined in the trauma facility for more than 5 days. The high level of commitment of the
care provider is influenced by good communication skills and interpersonal relations with the
trauma patients.
On the view of findings and conclusions, the following recommendations were
considered: Health stakeholders should formulate a sustainable development plans that
will address the increasing number of traumatic incidence incorporating the external and internal
factors influencing it prevalence. A more intensified measure should be undertaken by the care
providers maximizing their potentials in providing trauma care and the immediate needs of
the trauma patients. Further studies should be conducted on commitment of care providers to
trauma patients in a wider perspective.

AWARENESS ON CERVICAL CANCER: BASIS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN
INFORMATION DISSEMINATION MATERIAL
WHITNEY L. DELA CRUZ

This study determined the level of awareness on Cervical Cancer among the 3rd year
and 4th year female high school students of Urdaneta National High School in Urdaneta City as
a basis for the Development of an Information Dissemination Material.
The first problem focused on the profile of the selected 3rd and 4th year female high
school student-respondents of Urdaneta National High School in terms of age, number of
siblings in the family, order of the child in the family, parents’ highest educational attainment,
parents’ occupation, parents’ monthly income and religion. The second problem dealt on the
level of awareness on Cervical Cancer among female high school students along the following:
risk factors, signs and symptoms, preventions, treatment and management. The third problem
focused on what information material to be developed to further prevent Cervical Cancer among
women.
The study adopted the descriptive research design likewise descriptive survey method
was applied developed by the researcher adopted from UCL Health Behavior Research Center
and based on the literatures. The respondents were selected using the Slovin’s formula to
compute for the sample size needed in the study based on the total population.
Based on the gathered data, the following were the salient findings; 1) Most of the
respondents are age 15 years old, with 1-3 siblings in the family, with first born child. Along
parents’ highest educational attainment either the father or the mother has finished their
baccalaureate degree. Likewise, along parents’ occupation, they were currently employed.
Majority of the respondents’ monthly family income claimed that they are earning 5,001 to
10,000 which considered as enough income for everyday expenses and in terms of their religion,
majority of them belonged to the Roman Catholic. 2) Along risk factors and signs and symptoms,
the respondents were not aware. However, along prevention and treatment and management

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