Aman, Salwa (2016) Breast Self-Examination Practice and Associated Factors among Women Seeking Care in Public Health Centers of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2016. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.
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Abstract
Background: Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women of developed and developing countries. Among the screening methods, breast self-examination is the physical examination of the women’s breasts that is conducted by oneself that is easy, safe and requires no cost or specific equipment. However, in resource limited countries like Ethiopia, the figure appears to be much less. Therefore, Breast self-examination should be encouraged as early detection means of breast cancer in order to avert the related morbidities and mortalities. Objective: To assess the practice of Breast self-examination and its associated factors among women seeking care in public health centers of Addis Ababa. Method: An institution based cross-sectional study design on sample size of 422 was used to collect data from March 01-30, 2016. A simple random sampling technique was employed for the selection of Health centers and then informants were selected by using systematic random sampling method. Epi data version 3.5 and SPSS version 22 was used for data entry and analysis respectively. Moreover, Logistic regression analysis was fitted and odds ratios with 95% Confidence intervals were computed and p values less than 0.05 were considered significant. Result: There were 403 respondents, which gives a 95.5% response rate from the expected 422. Below one fourth 18.6% of the respondents regularly practiced BSE. The most common reason for not practicing BSE was “I don’t have breast problem” 92(36.9%). Regarding the questions designed to assess BSE knowledge of the respondents, 239(59.3%) of the participants were found knowledgeable. Two hundred fourty four (60.5%) of the women were found to have good attitude towards BSE. The odds of women to practice BSE who are cohabiting with their partner were 0.4 times lower than those who are not. On the other hand the likelihood of practicing BSE is 3 times higher among women who have good attitude towards BSE [AOR=3.1 (0.12, 0.78)]. There was also significant association between good practicing of BSE and ever being examined by a health professional [AOR=5.22(2.62, 10.41)] and having ever discussed the importance with other people [AOR=2.95(1.43,6.08)]. Conclusion: this study revealed low level of BSE practice. In order to improve women’s health seeking behavior and screening practice, it is vital to initiate interventions that seek to provide health education, and to encourage preventive practice.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | breast self-examination, breast cancer, knowledge, perception, screening |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine R Medicine > RT Nursing |
| Divisions: | Africana |
| Depositing User: | Emmanuel Ndorimana |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Nov 2018 06:52 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Nov 2018 06:52 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/7905 |
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