Knowledge Attitude and Practice Regarding Screening of Breast Cancer Among Women in Karachi, Pakistan
| Autor: | Erum Khan, Adina Anwar, Abdullah Bin Khalid, Nadia Safeer |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Self breast examination
klinik meme muayenesi medicine.medical_specialty Cross-sectional study Population Developing country Clinical Breast Examination Kendi kendine meme muayenesi Breast cancer Breast Cancer Medicine Stage (cooking) Family history skin and connective tissue diseases education Cause of death lcsh:R5-920 education.field_of_study business.industry meme kanseri Breast Self-Examination General Medicine medicine.disease Family medicine lcsh:Medicine (General) business |
| Zdroj: | Online Türk Sağlık Bilimleri Dergisi, Vol 4, Iss 3, Pp 301-314 (2019) |
| ISSN: | 2459-1467 |
| DOI: | 10.26453/otjhs.476021 |
| Popis: | Breast cancer in women is a major health burden both in developed and developing countries. Breast cancer leads second cause of death in worldwide and as well as in Pakistan. A breast cancer is one of the preventable cancers of the body. Self-breast examination is a very easy tool for early screening but lack of awareness regarding breast cancer is a major hurdle in breast cancer diagnosis at an early stage. The aim of the study is to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice regarding screening of Breast Cancer among Women in Karachi, Pakistan. Study type is cross sectional study and designed to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice about the screening of breast cancer in general population of Karachi. The sample size of this study consisted of 336 volunteer female individuals. The questionnaire contained 10 questions pertaining to knowledge of breast cancer, 3 questions about of attitude of females and 4 questions about screening of breast cancer. Out of 336 participants 94% (n=316) females which were married and 6% (n=20) others were widow. As far as the knowledge was concerned there was family history of breast cancer in 31.3% females and no family history 83.2% patients. Responding to the question about “do you practice SBE (Self Breast examination)” majority of females 72% were in proper practice of SBE while 28% females were not in proper practice. In conclusion, findings showed that the level of awareness of breast cancer i.e. knowledge of about breast cancer alarming signs, risk factors, screening program and breast self-examination were very inadequate. |
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