Determining the Awareness of and Compliance with Breast Cancer Screening among Turkish Residential Women

Demet Yilmaz,Tulay Ortabag,Hatice Bebis

doi:10.7314/apjcp.2013.14.5.3281

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Abstract

Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in women. Despite being associated with high morbidity and mortality, breast cancer is a disease that can be diagnosed and treated early. In this cross-sectional study of 321 women, data were collected by Questionnaire, Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Form and Champion's Health Belief Model Scale. Mann-Whitney U, Kruskal-Wallis, Chi- squared tests and logistic regression were used in the statistical analysis. It was found that only 2.2% of women have high and very high risk levels of breast cancer risk. There is a positive correlation between early diagnosis techniques and Health Belief Model Sub-Dimension scores which are sensibility, health motivation, BSE (Breast self-examination) self-efficient perception and negative correlation between mammography barrier score and BSE barrier score (p 0.05). When factors for not having BSE were examined, it was determined that the women who do not have information about breast cancer and the women who smoke have a higher risk of not having BSE. It is important to determine health beliefs and breast cancer risk levels of women to increase the frequency of early diagnosis. Women's health beliefs are thought to be a good guide for planning health education programs for nurses working in this area.

Highlights

Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in women (Thompson et al, 2005; Urkmez, 2009; Yilmaz, 2010; Ozmen, 2011; World Health Organization, 2011; American Cancer Society, 2012)
Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional study of 321 women, data were collected by Questionnaire, Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Form and Champion’s Health Belief Model Scale
There is a positive correlation between early diagnosis techniques and Health Belief Model Sub-Dimension scores which are sensibility, health motivation, BSE (Breast self-examination) self-efficient perception and negative correlation between mammography barrier score and BSE barrier score (p 0.05)

Summary

Introduction

Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in women (Thompson et al, 2005; Urkmez, 2009; Yilmaz, 2010; Ozmen, 2011; World Health Organization, 2011; American Cancer Society, 2012). Breast self-examination (BSE), clinical breast examination (CBE) and mammography are the most commonly known and used screening programs in the world (Sadler et al, 2001; Thompson et al, 2005; Urkmez, 2009; Yilmaz, 2010; American Cancer Society, 2012). The cancer determination rate increases by 5-20% when CBE is applied with mammography (Philips, 1993; Sadler et al, 2001; Ho, 2006; Guney, 2009; Urkmez, 2009; World Health Organization, 2011; American Cancer Society, 2012). The. Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention, Vol 14, 2013 3281 literature has suggested that it is important to combine the use of BSE, CBE and mammography for the early detection of breast cancer (Guney, 2009; Urkmez, 2009; Ozmen, 2011; American Cancer Society, 2012). The Health Belief Model (HBM) is a common method used by nurses for studying the factors that influence an individual’s actions regarding health (Harrison et al, 1992; Champion et al, 2000; Sadler et al, 2001; Dundar at al., 2006; Karayurt et al, 2007)

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Motivation Score Average