An Examination on the Knowledge Level of Breast Self-Examination of the Patients Who Apply to a University Hospital

Abstract

Objective: The main aim of this study is to examine the knowledge level of women on breast cancer and breast self-examination who apply to the University Hospital's Obstetrics and Gynecology and General Surgery polyclinics. This study was made in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and this study supports the adoption of these principles by other people involved in medical research on human volunteers. Materials and Methods: The universe is formed by the patients that have applied to the University Hospital's Obstetrics and Gynecology and General Surgery polyclinics within the dates of June-July 2016. Within this study data was collected by the Champion's Health Belief Model Scales (CHBMS) and a total of 351 participants were reached. Results: The 43.6% of the sample consists of women of 20-29 ages, 71% of them are married and 27.4% of them have either an undergraduate or a post graduate degree. The perceived benefits concept has the most mean out of the 6 concepts in CHBMS. The study also showed that although 79.2% of the participants didn't have a breast problem; 27.6 % of them said that they would do breast self-examine 3-4 times in a year. Conclusion: As a result we can say that the participants are aware of the importance of breast selfexamination and that they have learned it from health professionals.

A Different Approach to Breast Self-Examination Training: Family Training

“…When evaluating women's sources of information about BSE behavior, it was seen that 68.2% of them received information from healthcare personnel (Table 2). The rate of women getting BSE information from medical personnel was found to be 49.3% in a study carried out in Turkey [21]. According to another study, 24.9% of women received information about BSE behavior from healthcare personnel [30].…”

“…); 5 questions about BSE practice (whether they practiced BSE, frequency of practice, etc.) [4,6,7,10,12,13,[20][21][22].…”

dördüncül koruma ve aşırı medikalizasyon

“…Tıbbın sınırlarının genişletilerek patolojik sayılmayan insan yaşamının bazı yönlerinin tıbbi sorunlar olarak algılanması süreci "medikalizasyon" olarak tanımlanmaktadır. 19 Aşırı medikalizasyon kavramı ise hastalara sağladığı faydalar açısından doğrulanmamış, potansiyel olarak zararlı ve bu nedenle gereksiz maliyetlere yol açan tıbbi uygulamalar olarak tanımlanmaktadır ve bu kavram aşırı teşhis ve aşırı tedavi kavramlarını da kapsamaktadır. 20 Aşırı medikalizasyonu oluşturan aşırı tanı ve aşırı tedavi arasındaki ilişki Şekil 3'te gösterilmiştir.…”