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...

In a previously reported investigation of 616 women with breast cancer included in a case-control study, we found an association between tumour stage at presentation and breast self examination (BSE) (Mant et al., 1987). Women who had both practised and been taught BSE had more favourably staged tumours than other women. A number of other studies, summarised in the meta-analysis by Hill et al. ...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to assess practice of breast cancer early diagnosis methods among women and the factors associated with this practice. MATERIALS AND METHODS The population of this cross-sectional study consisted of 410,377 women over the age of 20, living within the administrative borders of Samsun province. Stratified systematic sampling was used in the selection of t...

The purpose of this cross-sectional, correlational, descriptive study was to investigate factors and beliefs that may be related to the practice of breast self-examination (BSE) among a group of Jordanian women. The sample consisted of 519 women from two major universities in Jordan. About 36% of the sample were university employees and 64% were graduate and undergraduate students. Stratified r...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to identify the current status of the awareness and practice of breast self-examination (BSE) among Korean women. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study population was derived from the 2007 Korea National Cancer Screening Survey (KNCSS), an annual cross-sectional survey that uses a nationally representative random sample to investigate cancer-screening rates and...

This was a descriptive research conducted in order to determine health beliefs of the female academicians about breast cancer and screening tests and the Affecting factors that determined these beliefs. 200 female academicians made up the sample of the research. The data were gathered by the researcher using a Descriptive Data Collection Form that aimed at the characteristics of the women and C...

Breast cancer is a contributor to high mortality rates in women, with rate of 18% women's deaths. Public awareness recognizing and identifying symptoms at an early stage still low, making Indonesia more advanced stage. This community service activity aims increase knowledge skills preventing detecting breast through counseling about self-examination (BSE). partner the PKK cadres who contribute ...

BACKGROUND In Iran, breast cancer is the second most common malignancy among women and diagnosed in advanced stages almost a decade earlier than women living in western countries. OBJECTIVE To determine the level of knowledge and attitudes toward breast self-examination (BSE) among Iranian women. METHODS In a cross-sectional multi-center study, 3,060 women aged between 25 and 54 years atten...

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,...

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...