Knowledge and Practice of Breast Self-Examination (BSE) Among Urban Women of a Low-Resource Country

Autor: Zohra Jabeen Zohra Jabeen, Sulhera Khan, Farhat Jafri, Amir Hussain Khan, Marium Khan, Nighat Shah
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Annals of Abbasi Shaheed Hospital and Karachi Medical & Dental College, Vol 28, Iss 2 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1563-3241
DOI: 10.58397/ashkmdc.v28i2.650
Popis: Objective: To assess the knowledge, attitude & practices of breast self-examination among women residing in the district 'Central' of Karachi and to determine the knowledge, attitude and practices of breast self-examination among high risk Ca breast women residing in the district central of Karachi. Methods: This descriptive, cross-sectional, questionnaire-based, study was carried out among women attending a charitable hospital in Karachi, in 2018. The data was collected through a convenience sampling technique, and was analyzed by using SPSS version 24.0. Descriptive statistics of socio-demographic variables were presented as mean ± SD for continuous variables and frequency or percentages for categorical variables. The Chi-square test was used to test the association between knowledge, attitude and practice regarding Ca breast and breast self-examination, p-value
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