OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to identify the health beliefs and breast cancer (BC) screening behavior of a group of female health professionals (FHPs) [physicians, nurses and midwives] in Turkey. MATERIALS AND METHODS This descriptive study was conducted at primary and secondary level healthcare institutions in Central Anatolia, Turkey. The study group included 720 FHPs. Data was c...

Suicide by self-immolation, or lighting oneself on fire, is the most common method of suicide used among women in rural Iran. Understanding the underlying mechanisms that may lead women to commit suicide by self-immolation is necessary for the development of empirically-supported prevention programs. Currently, no integrative approach to the risk factors for self-immolation among women in rural...

According to McKenna et al. [17], the annual incidence of BC worldwide will be more than one million cases by the year 2000. They reported that above the age of 30, incidence rates of BC began to rise and the highest rates were among women aged 60 and over. Furthermore, they added that cancer will become an increasingly important challenge to health services of developing countries in the comin...

BACKGROUND Breast self-examination and clinical breast examination have been promoted for many years as general screening methods to diagnose breast cancer at an earlier stage in order to decrease morbidity and or mortality. The possible benefits and harms remain unclear. OBJECTIVES To determine whether screening for breast cancer by regular self-examination or clinical breast examination red...

background: breast cancer is a life threatening disease affecting women. awareness should be created among women for early detection of breast cancer. nurses should provide information on bse to women population as a part of their profession. the aim of this study was to assess the attitude and practice of nurses in imparting knowledge on bse to female patients. methods: this cross-sectional st...

AIM The aim of this study was to analyze studies in Turkey about self-breast examination and produce conclusive, reliable and detailed basis for future studies. METHODS Studies performed between 2000 and 2009 (until the end of September) were retrieved from databases using breast cancer, breast examination, breast cancer screening and risk factors as key words. Fifty-nine studies were identif...