Cervical Cancer is more common among women who do not go for screening, though it is fatal but preventable and curable if diagnosed and treated early. Therefore this study examined the structure of nurse-led training and its impact on cervical cancer screening awareness and uptake of the screening program among women in Ekiti State. The study adopted one group pre and post-test quasi-experimental design. The population for this study consisted of all women attending the clinics of Comprehensive Health Centres, Okeyinmi and Odo-Ado both in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State. Purposive sampling technique was used in selecting the sample size of 170. A standardized pre and post-test semi-structured adopted questionnaire was employed for data collection. The instrument was subjected to face and content validity by experts in the field of Nursing Science while the reliability of the instrument was established using test re-test method. The experimental procedure involved three stages namely pre-treatment stage, treatment stage and post-treatment stage. The data collected were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The findings of the study revealed that the intervention program had improved the knowledge, view and practice of the participants toward cervical cancer and its screening. The intervention also increased the willingness to uptake cervical screening among studied women. It was recommended among others that more awareness of cervical cancer screening should be created in media such as newspapers, magazines, social media and at health gatherings of women like in antenatal clinics.

Keywords: Nurse-led, Training, Uptake, Cervical Cancer, Screening, Women,

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