AIM To describe health beliefs and breast self-examination (BSE) practice of Turkish female nursing and midwifery students and assess teaching of BSE to their mothers, sisters, relatives. METHODS The study was designed as a definition survey, withe data obtained from 113 participants, in third and fourth class and their mothers, sisters, relatives in Turkey. Data were collected by using a per...

This study was conducted to explore the knowledge and practice of nurses regarding breast self-examination (BSE) in the United Arab Emirates. Nurses working in different hospitals constituted the study population. A total of 154 nurses who had come to participate in the breast cancer awareness week programme were the participants. Approval of the Gulf Medical University ethics committee was obt...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To discover the factors that influence the decision to perform breast self-examination (BSE). DESIGN Quantitative, correlational. SETTING Institutional; urban and suburban. SAMPLE A nonrandomized convenience sample of 93 women. METHODS Willing participants were asked to complete by mail a short demographic form, the Reduced Laffrey's Health Conception Scale, Champion'...

Objectives: To assess knowledge and practice regarding breast self-examination (BSE) among Saudi women in Abha City, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Subjects and Methods: A cross sectional study was carried out to include 400 Saudi women aged over 18 years, among the attendants of Al-Manhal primary health care center. A study questionnaire was developed for data collection that included personal data,...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether Canadian family practitioners routinely teach breast self-examination (BSE) after publication of the 2001 Canadian Preventive Health Task Force guideline advising them to exclude teaching BSE from periodic health examinations. DESIGN Self-administered cross-sectional mailed survey. SETTING Canada. PARTICIPANTS A random sample of English-speaking general pr...

Prediction of stock market trends has been an area of great interest both to researchers attempting to uncover the information hidden in the stock market data and for those who wish to profit by trading stocks. The extremely nonlinear nature of the stock market data makes it very difficult to design a system that can predict the future direction of the stock market with sufficient accuracy. Thi...

a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Keywords: Volatility forecasting Stock markets EGARCH type1 and type2 fuzzy-EGARCH models Functional link neural network Differential harmony search In this paper a new hybrid model integrating an interval type2 fuzzy logic system (IT2FLS) with a computationally efficient functional link artificial neural network (CEFLANN) and an Exponential Generalized Aut...

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...

The incidence of breast cancer is rising rapidly among the fast-growing demographic group of Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs). In this study, the authors assessed the awareness of breast self-exam (BSE) and factors predicting practice of BSE among Chinese immigrant women living in San Francisco. Three hundred and ninety-seven women participated in a telephone survey; 80.9% reported ...

in recent years, the relationship between insertion and deletion (indel) polymorphisms in promoter region (23 bp) and intron 1 (12 bp) of prnp gene (prion protein coding gene) and their relationship to susceptibility of classical bovine spongiform encephalopathy (bse) have been reported. insertions of these two polymorphisms increase resistance to classical bse, while the deletions of these two...