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Preventive medicine
Women’s health
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Abstract
Objective: To identify the factors that may prevent the Papanicolaou test from being performed in elderly women. Methods: This is an integrative literature review, made through the online databases of the Virtual Health Library (VHL) such as the Latin American & Caribbean Health Sciences Literature (LILACS), Databases in Nursing (BDENF), Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) and the Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online (MEDLINE). Inclusion criteria were articles published in Portuguese and in the past five years, with the following descriptors: Pap smear; Elderly people; Preventive care; Women’s health. Results: 103 articles were found, from which 8 were selected for identifying the main factors that prevent the smear test from being performed on elderly women. Final considerations: The nurse is responsible for collecting the vaginal cytological material in the office during a nursing consultation and it is up to them to identify impeding factors, seeking to work with educational actions to break down barriers that prevent elderly women’s adherence to the Preventive Exam.