Knowledge Level towards Breast Cancer and Breast Self-Examination among Medical Students of Indonesia (original) (raw)
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2020
Cancer sufferers around the world have increased every year, in 2012 there were 8.2 million deaths from cancer, according to WHO this figure will reach 27 million new cases by 2030. Breast cancer is a non-communicable disease that is very high risk of death if not handled properly. Breast cancer sufferers are not only attack the adult women, even the teenagers are susceptible to breast cancer. The purpose of this research was to determine the relationship between the level of knowledge and interest of the young women to early detecting of breast cancer. The research method was a cross sectional analytic survey conducted in November 2018-June 2019 at Bulukumba Junior High School, Indonesia. Data collection used the questionnaire for 46 young womens who were willing to become respondents. The results showed more than half of the respondents (67.4%) responded to the detection of breast cancer positively, the respondents were more dominant had a fairly good level of knowledge (69.6%) and respondents had more good interest (54.3%). There is a conclusion that there is a very significant relationship between the level of knowledge with the desire of the young women to do early detection of breast cancer, as well as the interest of the young women to do early detection of breast cancer as evidenced by the results of both that have a chi square test < 0.05.
Intisari Sains Medis, 2019
Background: Breast cancer is the second leading cause of death among women around the world. In Indonesia, breast cancer is the leading cause of death among women. Previous studies have shown that female students have limited knowledge of breast cancer. This study is aimed at assessing the level of breast cancer knowledge among female high school students in Santo Yoseph School, Denpasar. Methods: A cross-sectional survey of 96 female high school students in Santo Yoseph School, Denpasar, was conducted using a self-administered questionnaire. Questions asked in the questionnaire were about general knowledge of breast cancer, risk factors towards breast cancer, signs and symptoms of breast cancer and knowledge of Breast Self-Examination. The data was tabulated by scoring only the correct answers and analysed using SPSS version 17 for Windows. Results: The result of the study showed that high school female students had moderate to good knowledge of breast cancer. Fiftythree (55.2%) female students had average knowledge and fortythree (44.8%) female students had good knowledge of breast cancer. The majority of the participants, seventy-five (78.1%) of them, knew that breast cancer was the leading cause of death among women in Indonesia. Conclusion: The recent findings showed that female high school students had good knowledge of breast cancer. Good knowledge of breast cancer is important for girls and women equally.
Systematic Reviews in Pharmacy, 2021
Objective: To review the knowledge on breast cancer (BC), breast self-examination (BSE) and clinical breast examination (CBE) practices among female university students in a private University, Malaysia. Methodology: This is a cross-sectional study conducted in a private university teaching medical and healthcare courses in Malaysia. Simple random sampling method was used. A structured questionnaire consisting of 4 sections was used for data collection. Data obtained were coded and SPSS Statistics (version 25) was used for analysis. Categorical data were presented as frequency and percentage whereas chi-square test was used to find the association between two different categorical variables. Results: A total of n=309 responses were collected from female students in a private university in Malaysia. The mean age of the respondents was 20.58 years (SD = 1.479, range = 19 - 30). One tenth of the respondents had family history of breast cancer [32 (10.4%)]. 304 students (98.4%) have hea...
2018
Introduction: Many studies had been carried out on breast cancer awareness and the practice of breast self-examination (BSE). However, few studies had been conducted on the level of knowledge of breast cancer and the adoption of BSE amongst female undergraduate students. Even though younger women have lower breast cancer incidence but younger women tend to have more aggressive cancer type and possibly present breast cancer at an advanced stage. Therefore, it is best to start BSE at an early age especially in the high-risk group because it will help in early detection of breast cancer. As such, this study aims to ascertain the level of knowledge of breast cancer and stage of adoption of breast self-examination (BSE) among female undergraduate students of the Kulliyyah of Allied Health Sciences (KAHS), International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) Kuantan, Pahang. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out on 262 randomly selected female undergraduate students from KAHS, II...
International Journal of Clinical Inventions and Medical Science, 2022
Breast cancer (Carsionama mamae) is cancer that originates from the glands, ducts and supporting tissues of the breast but does not include the skin of the breast. Breast cancer is the second most common cancer affecting Indonesian women and is the number one killer of women in the world (Mangan, 2005). The purpose of this study was to find the effect of education between health education regarding BSE examination and the knowledge and attitudes of young women at the Medan Tuntungan Health Center in 2020. The research method used was quasi-experimental. The population in this study were all young women who lived in the area of the Medan Tuntungan Health Center. Sampling technique with a total sampling of 34 people. The results of statistical tests using the Wilcoxon test, obtained p value = 0.025 (p value <0.05) meaning Ho is rejected, which means that there is an influence between the Health Department on adolescent attitudes about BSE examinations. It is hoped that adolescent...
Breast cancer is the most common cancer affecting women in most parts of the world including Malaysia. Even though breast self examination (BSE) is not seen as a relevant cancer screening tool anymore, it still plays an important role in the breast health awareness programme. Aim of the study to determine the knowledge of respondents on breast cancer regarding the risk factors, symptoms, and to determine respondents’ practice of breast self-examination. A cross sectional study was carried out in University Putra Malaysia, data were collected using validated questionnaire developed for this study. Among respondents 197(83.1%) were single, 100 were Malay (42.3%) and 49(20.7%) of the respondents reported having a family history of breast cancer. eighty-seven respondents (36.7%) claimed they had practice BSE. There were statistically significant differences between those who practice and did not practice BSE in term of knowledge regarding risk factors, symptoms of breast cancer, total knowledge of breast cancer and knowledge score of BSE (p-value <0.05). The findings showed that knowledge of breast cancer and the practice of BSE is inadequate among young Malaysian female.
Malaysian Journal of Public Health Medicine, 2020
The aim of this study is to assess the knowledge, attitude and practices of breast cancer among health science students in Shahrekord city, Iran. A cross- sectional study was conducted in 2017-2018 academic year among 334 health science students in Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences. Data was collected using self-administered structured questionnaire. The total score for knowledge was 18. Any respondent who had more than 9 was considered as having good knowledge and below 9 as having poor knowledge. The total score for attitude was 7. Any score more than 4 was considered as good attitude and score less than 4 was considered as bad attitude. The mean age of the respondents was 21.21± 1.19 years. Most of the respondents aged 18 to 21 years. The knowledge level was significantly different by age group (P=0.002), department (P=0.000) and those who attended training course (P=0.000). Those who perform BSE (Breast Self-Examination) had higher knowledge score about breast cancer th...
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Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Different studies conducted in the Kingdom have shown that knowledge of females regarding breast cancer is poor. Aim of the study was to determine knowledge, attitude and practice among students of Saudi female medical university towards Breast Self Examination (BSE) and also to explore their knowledge about breast cancer. Research Methodology: An observational cross-sectional study was conducted at Faculty of Medicine, Taif University during October 2013. Sample size was 378 with mean age of 19.9 ± 1.5. A self administrated questionnaire was used to obtain data about knowledge, attitude and practice towards BSE and knowledge about breast cancer. Data were collected and fed to SPSS version 16. Shape of distribution for numerical data was tested by using one sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. Chi-Square Test & Fissure Exact Test (FET) were used for testing relation between categorical variables while correlation analysis was used to test the strength of relation between numeric variables. Main Results: The study revealed that only 8.2% of participants had good overall knowledge about breast cancer and BSE. Although 66% of the study sample had positive attitude towards BSE, only 17% reported that they practiced BSE monthly. A significant positive moderate correlation was found between overall knowledge score and attitude towards BSE (r = 0.449 & p = 0.000). The same was for the frequency of BSE practice but it was found to be in a weak magnitude (r = 0.223 & p = 0.000). Conclusion and Recommendations: Although there was lack of knowledge about breast cancer and BSE yet, positive attitude towards BSE was encouraging. Most female medical students in our sample did not perform BSE or perform it irregularly. Therefore, more intensified awareness programs among students of medical university are necessary to keep in view their current status of breast cancer and BSE knowledge. Further researches are needed to identify causes of inadequate knowledge and practice of BSE among medical students in Taif.
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In Indonesia, based on Indonesia’s Health Profile 2008, the top 10 major malignant neoplasm disease or cancer inpatients at the hospital since 2004-2008 has not changed much. The first rating is breast malignant neoplasm or breast cancer. Society rarely knows that it is important to perform BSE (breast self-examination) early, which can help reduce the incidence of morbidity or mortality of breast cancer patients. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between knowledge in women aged 25-50 years at RW 05 Cibubur, East Jakarta, on BSE as early detection of breast cancer. This research employed an analytic survey with the cross-sectional approach. The employed technique in sampling was simple random sampling. It was done with the lottery technique to population members. The results of the 207 respondents showed that respondents with bad BSE knowledge were 100 people (48.3%) and respondents with good knowledge were 107 (51.7%). The respondents who practiced the BSE...
INTRODUCTION Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women in both developed and developing world. It is estimated that 508,000 women died in 2011 due to breast cancer. 1 The incidence of breast cancer is increasing in the developing world due to increase life expectancy, increase urbanization and adoption of western lifestyles. Although some risk reduction might be achieved with prevention, these strategies cannot eliminate the majority of breast ABSTRACT Background: Breast cancer is a common health problem among females in Saudi Arabia. The disease account for 27% of all female malignancies representing 25.1% of all newly diagnosed female cancers. The objectives of the current study were to assess the level of carcinoma breast awareness of female university students, Majmaah University in Saudi Arabia and to compare the level of awareness, breast self-examination and breast cancer screening between medical and non-medical students. Methods: The current study was a cross-sectional, conducted among female students in Majmaah University in Saudi Arabia. The stratified and the systematic sampling were employed to select the colleges and the students respectively. The sample size was calculated as 325. Data was collected by a pre tested questionnaire and analyzed by SPSS. Results: The university students who acquired good knowledge were 111 (34.2%). Students who acquired average and poor knowledge were 42.2% and 23.6% respectively. Medical students who had good knowledge were 37.6% compared to 26.9% of non-medical students. The results showed that 94 (28.9%) of the participants practice breast self-examination and 25 (7.6%) performed a screening test. Conclusions: The study concluded that Majmaah University students' awareness of carcinoma breast is low. There is no significant difference in the level of awareness between students of medical colleges and those of non-medical colleges. The level of practicing breast self-examination and performing screening test for carcinoma breast among female university students is low. There is a significant difference in performing carcinoma breast screening test between medical and non-medical students.