Gena, Dureti (2013) Knowledge and Perception Regarding Breast Cancer Prevention among University Students. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.
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Abstract
Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers and a major cause of death among women worldwide. Each year, breast cancer is newly diagnosed in more than one million women worldwide. This study was a cross sectional survey in which a questionnaire was presented for186 female student in Hawasa and Meda Welabu University in order to assess their level of knowledge, relation of perceived susceptibility, perceived severity with preventive behaviour to breast cancer and major perceived barriers to different screening methods. Each question in the questionnaire was scored using a 5-point likert scale ranged from strongly agree (5) to strongly disagree (1). Negatively worded questions had their scales reversed. Correlation analysis was used to test for association of perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, with preventive behavior and frequency and percentage analysis was used to identify major barriers to different screening methods. All analyses were conducted using SPSS version 17. The result of the study showed only 3.8 % of the participants was knowledgeable about the risk factors, symptoms and signs of breast cancer.For the overall preventive behaviours of the respondents, and the percentage of the good practices was (12.9%) however (87.1%) need improvement. In addition participants reported relatively few perceived barriers to different screening methods performance (89.3%). As a conclusion the present study showed that participants had a low level of knowledge and revealed a strong association between perceived susceptibility and preventive behaviour of breast cancer(r=0.64), as well as moderate correlation between perceived severity and preventive behaviour of breast cancer(r=0.43) . Major perceived barriers found were perceived screening methods as painful, embarrassment, and feel fearful that they would not be able to do properly.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0254 Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology (including Cancer) |
| Divisions: | Africana |
| Depositing User: | Vincent Mpoza |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Oct 2018 07:54 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Oct 2018 07:54 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/6998 |
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