Knowledge, Practice and Associated Factors of Breast Self Examination Among Female Students of the College of Public Health and Medical Science, Jimma University, Ethiopia (original) (raw)
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Background: Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer related deaths among women worldwide. Diagnosis of breast cancer at an earlier stage allows women more treatment choices and greater chance of long term survival. Breast self-examination (BSE) once a month contributes to a woman's heightened awareness of what is normal for her. It is recommended that women over the age of 20 years perform monthly breast self-examination to detect new lumps and other changes in their breast. In view of the fact that mammography is not readily available in resource limited countries like Ethiopia, this study was designed to assess Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of regular Breast self-examination amongst female health science students of Adama science and Technology University in 2014. Methodology: A cross-sectional study design was used to select 368 study subjects randomly. Self-administered questionnaires were used to collect information. The collected data were entered into Epi-info version 3.5.1. After cleaning the data it was exported to SPSS version 21 for further analysis. Bivariate and multivariate analyses were also performed with logistic regression to measure the association between dependent and independent variables. Result: A total of 368 respondents participated in the study, of these, only 8.7% of them had good knowledge and 59.2% had positive attitude towards BSE. About two fifth (39.4%) of the respondents had done breast selfexaminations, from these only 9.7% of them practiced monthly. Statistically significant association was obtained only with, level of education of the participant, father's educational level and program of enrolment. Conclusion and recommendation: Knowledge and practice of BSE was low, even though majority of them have positive attitude. Being health was the major mentioned reasons for not doing BSE. The ministry of health is recommended to promote awareness about BSE through emergence of groups in the University, celebrating days like breast cancer day. G y n e c o lo gy & O b s te tr ic s
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Asian Journal of Medicine and Biomedicine, 2023
Malaysia is one of the countries that have the highest mortality rate of breast cancer among other countries in Asia. Therefore, breast self-examination (BSE) is encouraged in every country including Malaysia to increase the detection of any breast abnormalities at an early stage and decrease the incidence of cancer presented at a late stage. This study aims to assess the level of Health Sciences students' knowledge and practice of BSE as well as to investigate the association between knowledge and practice of BSE. A crosssectional study was conducted among female students from the Faculty of Health Sciences, UniSZA. An adapted questionnaire was distributed online using Google Forms to assess the knowledge and practice of BSE. Descriptive statistics were used to analyse sociodemographics, knowledge and practice on BSE while the Chi-Square test was used to determine the association between knowledge and practice of BSE among the respondents. A total of 288 female students participated in this study. The mean age was 21.4 ± 1.8 years old and most of them are single (99%). Most of the respondents (61%) have moderate knowledge of BSE, while 35% and 4% of respondents have good knowledge and poor knowledge, respectively. Among 288 participants, 93.4% have heard about BSE, but only 61% of people who have heard of BSE have performed it before. Besides, there was a significant association between knowledge and practice of BSE (χ² = 38.835, p =<0.001). Practice of BSE significantly related to its knowledge. Continuous awareness campaigns must be held through various platforms to educate the public and encourage them to practice BSE as their monthly routine for the early detection of breast cancer.
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Hospice & palliative medicine international journal, 2019
Introduction: BSE is simple, non-invasive, requires little time and cost free practice and it can be perform by both young and old women. By performing BSE can recognize changes, such as thickening, lumps, spontaneous nipple discharge or skin change, and dimpling. However, the women who not perform BSE are high risk for breast cancer. Breast cancer is the second most frequent occurring cancer among women. Objective: The object of this study to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice of BSE among female undergraduate CMHS, university of Gondar student`s. Methods: An institution based cross sectional study design was conducted at the University of Gondar, collage of medicine and health science from April to June 2018. A total of 300 students were included in this study. The source population was all female undergraduate nursing students. The study was selected by simple random sampling technique. Selfadministered questionnaire was used for data collection. Then data was entered to Epi info version 3.5.4. The enter data was export to SPSS statistical package for analysis. Result: In this study, a total of 300 undergraduate female nursing students participated in the study and giving a response rate of 100% About knowledge of the female undergraduate students with regard to BSE is found to be 55.7% with 95% CI: (56-61%) had knowledge of breast self examination while 176 (56.7%) with 95% CI: (53-64%) of the female undergraduate students have favorable attitude about BSE. Of the total participants, 34 (11.3%) with 95% CI: (7-15%) of the female undergraduate students had practiced Conclusion: In general, the KAP of the participants were, 55.7% with 95% CI: (56-61%), 56.7% with 95% CI: (53-64%) and 11.3% with 95% CI: (7-15%) respectively. This finding showed that the participants had poor KAP toward BSE. Therefore, Universities and other stake holders should plan to promote provision of information, education and communication targeting females, and the general community to increase awareness to ward breast self examination.
journal of nursing education and practice, 2020
Background: The cost-effective method of early detection of cancer of the breast especially in resource poor countries breast self examination. Breast carcinoma is an important public health problem. Due to low levels of awareness many studies have suggested the practice of breast self examination as an important method of prevention. The most common cause of death among women worldwide is due to the breast cancer [1]. Primary prevention should be given the highest priority in the fight against cancer so the Breast self-exam (BSE) is considered an important public health procedure There was some 6.2 million cancer related deaths, accounting for 12% of all deaths globally which in developed countries is the send leading cause of death [2]. if told about the diagnosis patient may loss hopes and become devastated and crippled or even dies earlier, as Patients perception toward this disease and preference concerning the types and aims of their treatment are vary [3] I assessed breast-self examination (BSE) knowledge, among females in selected areas of Damoh, District The aim of the study was 1. To assess the knowledge of females regarding BSE 2. To find out relationship between socio demographic variables and breast self-exam. In the selected areas of Damoh 100 female participants were selected and questionnaire was prepared for data collection which consisted of two parts i.e. 1. Socio demographic characteristics for study sample. 2. Women's knowledge about breast self exam. The total period of data collection was done for the period of 30days ie 1st July to 31th July 2016.. The study showed that there poor knowledge of BSE among the females and no any significant difference was found among the females with the demographic variables. To reduce the incidences of breast cancer it was recommended that the implementation of educational programmes related to Knowledge, practice and awareness of breast cancer,BSE, in females by the health team to be undertaken.
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