Women’s knowledge about risk factors of breast cancer in a Brazilian community

2018 ◽  
Vol 59 (5) ◽  
pp. 558-568 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ângela Gabrielly Quirino Freitas ◽  
Mathias Weller
2012 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 4191-4197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inanc Guvenc ◽  
Gulten Guvenc ◽  
Sevinc Tastan ◽  
Aygul Akyuz

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (15) ◽  
pp. 5662-5671 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenerius A. Aminawung ◽  
Jessica R. Hoag ◽  
Kelly A. Kyanko ◽  
Xiao Xu ◽  
Ilana B. Richman ◽  
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2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-162
Author(s):  
Qiyan Mu ◽  
Lisa Hanson ◽  
James Hoelzle ◽  
Richard J. Fehring

Author(s):  
Anita Ungure ◽  
Jana Žodžika ◽  
Nellija Lietuviete ◽  
Dace Rezeberga ◽  
Ilva Šenfelde

Background: The incidence of cervical cancer in Latvia is one of the highest among European countries. An organized cervical cancer screening program in Latvia was introduced in 2009. Women’s knowledge and attitude regarding cervical cancer is the key component for successful prevention of this disease. The aim of this study was to evaluate women’s knowledge about the risk factors, prevention and diagnostic methods of precancerous and invasive disease of the uterine cervix in the main colposcopy clinic in Latvia and to compare women's knowledge before and after their first colposcopy visit.Methods: This was a cross sectional study where 100 women were included while attending their first colposcopy visit at Colposcopy Clinic of Riga East Clinical University Hospital. Study was performed in the period September 2017 to November 2017. Exclusion criteria were colposcopy follow-up examination and pregnancy. The most common reason for a planned colposcopy was suspected precancerous changes during cytology testing.Results: The most common information resources regarding reproductive health were gynaecologist (79%) and mass media (51%). Women knowledge about the risk factors of cervical precancerous changes were as follows: 30% marked smoking and 26% - early onset of the first sexual intercourse. 31% of women knew that vaccination against HPV is an effective prevention. 53% of women considered cervical cytology and 52% - colposcopy as a diagnostic method for precancerous changes. Higher number of women evaluated their general knowledge as sufficient after the visit (10% vs. 30%, p<0.05), but only smoking as a risk factor was recognized significantly more often (30% vs. 42%, p<0.05).Conclusions: Although current study presented specific population of women attending Colposcopy clinic because of suspected precancerous disease, less than a half of women knew risk factors, prevention and diagnostics of these changes. Overall women were satisfied with information they received during their first colposcopy visit, but afterward only knowledge about smoking as a possible risk factor improved significantly. It is important to improve women's knowledge about the meaning of prevention methods in order to increase the awareness of cervical cancer in Latvia.


PLoS ONE ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. e0145873 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Esposito ◽  
Rossella Ambrosio ◽  
Francesco Napolitano ◽  
Gabriella Di Giuseppe

Author(s):  
Dewi Andriani ◽  
Restuning Widiasih ◽  
Citra Windani Mambang S

Background, the incidence of breast cancer in women increases every year worldwide including Indonesia. Breast Self-Examination (BSE) is an early detection method for detecting breast cancer that can be done by all women. However, research in Indonesia that examines women's knowledge about BSE, especially in women who have teenage daughters is limited. The purpose of this study was to identify women's knowledge about BSE, especially women with teenage daughters. Method, This study was quantitative descriptive research. The samples were selected using the total sampling technique. The number of samples was 138 women who have teenage daughters. This study was conducted in Sarijadi Village, Bandung. The research instrument was a knowledge questionnaire about BSE. Data were analyzed using frequency distribution. The results of the study, women had a moderate level of knowledge about BSE (51.4%) Women's knowledge was good in the component of purposes and benefits of the BSE (79.7%), and they had poor understanding related to identifying sources to conduct BSE to their daughters (73.2%), Conclusions and recommendation, women have good knowledge about the purposes and benefits of BSE, however they had lack of knowledge about the role of women in supporting girls to conduct BSE.  Women need information from health workers relates to their roles in conducting BSE to their daughters. Further research is needed to examine the knowledge and role of fathers in women’s health especially daughters including early detection of cancer as supporting and maintaining daughters' health in the family are parents’ responsibilities including father.  Keywords: BSE, breast cancer, health knowledge, mothers, teenage women.


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