Influence of Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices on Breast Cancer Early Detection

Breast cancer has been diagnosed in majority of women worldwide over the years. It is a universal disease affecting people regardless of race, socio-economic status or culture. Delayed screening, examination and diagnosis can affect the impact of treatment and diagnosis. The objective of the study was to determine the influence of knowledge, attitudes and practices on adoption of early screening of breast cancer among women. The study employed cross-sectional and descriptive research design. A sample size of 384 households was used to obtain data from the households. The study targeted women aged 18-65 years. Sampling technique comprised of multistage sampling for the household, Quota sampling for the Focus Group Discussions and purposive sampling for the Key Informants. Primary data was gathered by use of questionnaires, Key Informant Interview guides, observation and Focus Group Discussions while secondary data was acquired through publications, journals, and internet access. All quantitative data were analysed using Microsoft excel, and Statistical package for Social Scientist (SPSS) version 20.0. The results from a Pearson chi square analysis with P>0.05 showed that knowledge on various risks to breast cancer significantly influenced the need for early adoption of screening; attitudes like curability of BCA, willingness to undertake BCA and if early detection of BCA is helpful were statistically insignificant in influencing BCA screening uptake with P>0.05, While findings indicate that there was no statistical significance between various practices and adoption of early detection of BCA in Homa Bay County. This indicated that most of the decisions to undertake early screening of breast cancer among women was less informed by their attitudes; while Practices among women indicated no statistical significance to adoption of early detection of BCA at a p>0.05. There is need for concerted public health awareness campaign on breast cancer early detection advantages in the community and by the Community Health Volunteers to encourage majority into the practice.

The effectiveness of a nurse-delivered breast health promotion program on breast cancer early detection behaviors

Background: Reported in Lampung Province, the prevalence of breast cancer cases has increased from 0.02% in 2010 to 0.7% in 2013. There were 1.030 cases. Two, Districts with the largest cases of breast cancer are west Lampung (10%) and Pringsewu (9.8%).Purpose: To knowing the effectiveness of a nurse-delivered breast health promotion models on breast cancer early detection behaviors among women of childbearing period age.Methods: A quantitative study, the population were women of childbearing period age, and samples comprise 120 participant divided in four groups in each group consist 30 participant. 90 participant as intervention group and 30 participant as control group. Independent t test was used in data analysis.Results: Shows there was no effect of education face to face with the booklet media and education face to face with the detection media cards, but there is a different result with education face to face with the combination of booklet and detection cards (p=0.004 mean difference= 0.767) on the behavior of early detection of breast cancer.Conclusion: The health practitioners should provide booklets together with the provision detection card to carry out routinely in preventive efforts. The study also recommends further research on active networking efforts and the efforts of palliative care for those diagnosed with breast cancer.