The incidence of breast cancer is 40 per 100.000 women. BSE a screening to detect cancer. research objective determine the correlation between knowledge and self-efficacy with behavior. This cross-sectional descriptive-analytic study utilized sample 20-65 women aged 100 years. Multistage random sampling was used as technique—univariate bivariate analysis significance level ρ 0.05 CI 95%. result...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To determine female physicians' and nurses' practices and attitudes toward breast self-examination (BSE). DESIGN Descriptive, cross-sectional. SETTING Two large, bed-capacity university hospitals and 11 smaller, bed-capacity public hospitals. SAMPLE 201 female nurses and 149 female physicians who work day shift on medical and surgical wards. METHODS Data were collecte...

The effect of fear arousal on attitude toward participating in early detection activities [i.e. breast self-examination (BSE)] was studied from an information-processing perspective. It was hypothesized that fear arousal motivates respondents to more argument-based processing of fear-relevant persuasive information. Respondents first read information about breast cancer in which fear was manipu...

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women globally as well as in Saudi Arabia. Early diagnosis can improve prognosis and breast self-examination (BSE) may be a cost effective way to achieve this. In Saudi Arabia, only a few studies have been conducted to address breast cancer awareness. Most showed a suboptimal level of understanding. During the last few years, Saudi Arabia has establ...

In this study we tested the framing hypothesis that a pamphlet stressing the negative consequences of not performing breast self-examination (BSE) would be more persuasive than a pamphlet emphasizing BSE's positive consequences. College-aged female subjects were exposed to a loss-frame pamphlet, a gain-frame pamphlet, or a no-arguments pamphlet, or they received no pamphlet describing the impor...

BACKGROUND 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. 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. Mann-...

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women worldwide and breast self-examination (BSE) is considered as the most cost-effective approach for early breast cancer detection. The general objective of this paper is to design and develop a computer vision algorithm to evaluate the BSE performance in real-time. The first stage of the algorithm presents a method for detecting and tracking the...

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women worldwide and it can be detected at an early stage through breast self-examination (BSE). This study was carried out to assess knowledge and practice of breast selfexamination among female traders in a welldefined market. A descriptive cross-sectional survey was carried out among a total sample of 281 women in Sango market, Ibadan in, 2003. Fe...

OBJECTIVE Periodic mammography, clinical breast examination and breast self-exam (BSE) facilitate getting a therapeutic response and improve disease prognosis, by leading to early diagnosis of the breast cancer. METHODS The study included a total of 618 women working in Çukurova University, Faculty of Medicine, as technician, secretary, staff, midwife and doctor. They answered a 22-items ques...

PURPOSE This cross-sectional survey was conducted to described the compliance of Breast Self-Examination of middle-aged women using a convenient sample, and to examine relationships between the compliance of BSE and Health Beliefs, and the influencing factors on the compliance of BSE. METHODS The subjects were 373 literate volunteers who were from 41 to 60 years of age who visited 6 public he...