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Abstract
Our purpose of this article was to investigate women's beliefs about breast cancer, breast cancer screening, and intervention programs. We designed the study using a cross-sectional/descriptive correlation. The participants were drawn from a convenience sample (N = 94). The instrument included Champion's Revised Health Belief Model Scale (CHBMS). Analysis was performed using SPSS (2005), 15.0. More than sixty-four percent (64.8%) of women surveyed were over 41. Results showed that 80.9% of women surveyed had heard of breast self-exams (BSEs), while 76.6% had heard of mammography. However, 53.2% never practiced breast self-examinations, and 79.6% never underwent mammography. Mean belief scores follow: low susceptibility (14.32), barriers to BSE (15.24), barriers to mammography (14.85), high seriousness (23.42), benefits to breast self-examination (22.7), confidence (36.45), health motivation (27.27), and benefits to mammography (24.28). Significant relationships included the relationship between barriers to breast self-examination and whether women had heard about breast self-examinations (p = .02); the relationship between susceptibility and whether women had heard of or underwent mammography (p = .027); the relationship between confidence and whether women had heard of mammography (p = .056); the relationship between confidence and perceived financial status (p = .05); and benefits of mammography (p = .05). Appropriate interventions are developed.
Notes
*Information is based on the number of respondents who answered each question; as a result, the total N values for each variable might not sum to 94 due to missing data.
*Note: 14 respondents answered only the demographic and screening behaviors sections.
