Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Breast Self-Examination among Women Aged 20-49 Years in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Chimdi, Chala (2017) Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Breast Self-Examination among Women Aged 20-49 Years in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.

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Abstract

Introduction: Breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer among women globally and the second commonest cancer overall. In Africa, breast cancer was also the most commonly diagnosed cancer and the second leading cause of death among women in 2008. In Ethiopia it is also an emerging public health problem and top leading causes of cancer mortality and morbidity among women of reproductive age group. However, only few researches were done regarding knowledge, attitude and practice of breast cancer self-examination. Objective: To assess the knowledge, attitude and practice of breast self-examination among women aged 20-49 years in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2017. Methodology: A community based cross- sectional study was conducted with a sample of 630 women aged 20-49 years in Addis Ababa. A multi-stage sampling technique was applied to select the study participants. Four out of ten sub-cities were selected randomly. One woreda was randomly selected in each sub-cities and systematic random sampling technique was used to select households in each selected Woreda .If there are more than one woman in the selected household one of them were randomly selected. A pretested structured questionnaire was used to collect data. Likert’s scale was applied to measure attitude and bloom cut classification score for knowledge score. Data was entered in to epidata and analyzed by (SPSS) software version 20. A Cross-tabulation was used to know the overall association of explanatory variables with breast self-examination. Bivariable and multi-variable binary logistic regression were also fitted to identify factors associated with breast self-examination practice. Result A total of 608 respondents participated in the study, of these only 155 (25.6%) of them had good knowledge and 53.4% had positive attitude towards breast self examination. Only 241 (39.6%) of the respondents had practiced BSE, from these study subjects only 96 (39.8%) of them practiced monthly. Occupational status and good knowledge of BSE were found to be significant association with the practice of breast self examination. Women of reproductive age group who are government employee were about 2 times more likely to practice breast self examination than those non-governmental employee [AOR=2.13, 95%, CI (1.19,3.84 ),p=0.011].Women who had good knowledge towards of breast self examination were 6 times more likely to practice BSE than those who had poor knowledge [AOR=5.99, 95%CI (4.1, 8.9), p=0.000] Conclusion and recommendation: knowledge and practice of breast self examination was low, even if majority of them had positive attitude. I suggest that the ministry of health and other concerned bodies should have to promote awareness creation for the community about breast cancer and BSE

Item Type: Thesis (Masters)
Subjects: R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
Divisions: Africana
Depositing User: Vincent Mpoza
Date Deposited: 04 Oct 2018 12:21
Last Modified: 04 Oct 2018 12:21
URI: http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/6725

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