knowledges, attitudes and practices of breast self examination among female students in University of kerbala 2021
Keywords:
Breast self examination (BSE), Breast cancer (BC), knowledge ,attitude and practice.Abstract
Background: Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers among females worldwide. Early detection of breast cancer plays the leading role in reducing mortality rates and improving the patients' prognosis.
Aim of the study
To assess the level of female university students’ knowledge attitude and practice of breast self-examination among Kerbala University student at 2021.
Subject & Methods: A cross-sectional study. It was conducted in University of Kerbala. Four colleges were chosen randomly as two medical and other two non-medical colleges. The study samples include 389 female students from 18 to 26 years. Data were collected in a period between 25th March to 2nd of August 2021.
Results:
The mean age of the responders was 19.9± (1.45) years. Most of the participants 310 (79.9%) were aware about BSE. The highest accurate responses were observed (91.0%) following the question “Is BSE important to diagnose early breast cancer?”, mean±SD (0.91±0.290), and 95% Cl (0.88-0.94). The awareness rate of this section was calculated as (61.1%). Similarly, the overall proportion of positive attitude and BSE practice were found (71.0%) and (39.0%), respectively.
Sociodemographic chrematistics such as subject of education, high financial wellbeing, and urban resident were found to correlate positively with BSE practice, (P=0.017), (P=0.029), and (P=0.01), respectively.
Conclusion:
Although the study documented good level of awareness among the university students of Kerbala, practicing BSE was relatively low. This is mostly to not knowing the exact technique to follow and/or students do not trust themselves in finding any medical benefit from practicing.
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