Are Women in Kuwait Aware of Breast Cancer and Its Diagnostic Procedures?

Saeed, Raed Saeed; Bakir, Yousif Yacoub; Ali, Layla

doi:10.7314/apjcp.2014.15.15.6307

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“…The finding is alarming and necessitates urgent corrective actions. A similar finding was reported among women in Kuwait (Saeed et al, 2014), among school girls in Sri Lanka (Ranasinghe et al, 2013), and among university female students in Malaysia (Akhtari- Zavare et al, 2013).…”

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Effect of a Breast-Self Examination (BSE) Educational Intervention among Female University Students

Moustafa¹,

Taha²

2015

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Abstract:Although evidence shows that women who correctly practice BSE monthly are more likely to detect a lump in the early stage, with early diagnosis and treatment yielding better survival, few women regularly perform BSE and many do not even know how to perform it. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of a health education intervention on "breast self-examination" regarding for knowledge, attitude, and practice among female students. Quasi-experimental study was carried out on 180 female student's sitting in the Faculty of Physical Education at Zagazig University and its affiliated hostel. The data collection tools included a self-administered questionnaire and an observation checklist to assess student's performance of BSE before and after the intervention. The results showed that these students have deficient knowledge and low perceptions regarding breast cancer and BSE; although the majority had positive attitudes, their practice of BSE is very deficient. The educational intervention was effective in improving students' knowledge, perceptions, attitudes, and practice. The intervention was a significant independent positive predictor of student's knowledge and practice scores, while the attitude score is modulated through the knowledge score. In conclusion, the university students at the Faculty of physical Education have deficient knowledge, low perceptions and inadequate practice regarding breast cancer and BSE. The educational intervention is effective in improving their knowledge, perceptions, attitudes, and practice. It is recommended that health education programs for university students, and the curriculum of the faculties of education should include some health-related issues. It is proposed to replicate this study using a randomized clinical trial design in order to confirm the findings and to provide a higher level of evidence.

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Effect of a Breast-Self Examination (BSE) Educational Intervention among Female University Students

Moustafa¹,

Taha²

2015

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“…[29] In Kuwait, 43.1% of women had overall good knowledge about breast cancer symptom and risk factors. [36] The clear difference between these studies and our study could be attributed to variation in the characteristics of the target population as well as cultural and social norms prevail in the Saudi Society.…”

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“…[35,36] Also, it is well known that diagnosis of breast cancer at early stages would enable better survival. In Saudi Arabia, as in developing countries, breast cancer cases are presented at late stages and consequently with bad prognosis.…”

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Breast Cancer Knowledge, Attitudes and Practice Among Women in King Khalid Armed Forces Hospital, Tabuk 2017.

Albalawi¹,

Jamilah²

2017

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Objectives: This study aimed to assess knowledge, attitude and practice regarding breast cancer and its screening among women in King Khalid Armed Forces Hospital, Tabuk 2017. Methods: It was cross sectional study-facility based study carried out in Tabuk city including a random sample of women (336) aged 18 years and above attending family medicine clinic and women health center, King Khalid Armed Forces hospital throughout the period between 1 st of March and 30 of April, 2017. Breast cancer awareness measure (CAM) validated questionnaire was used to collect the data. Results: The age of almost one-third of them (34.2%) ranged between 30 and 39 years. Overall, the sufficient overall knowledge regarding breast cancer was observed among 13.1% of the participants. Multivariate logistic regression analysis revealed that older women were more likely to have insufficient knowledge about breast cancer compared to younger women (AOR=2.98, 95% CI=1. p=0.016 and AOR=2.83, p=0.049, respectively). Most of women (75.6%) rarely or never checked their breast , 8% did this at least once a month, 76.5% were not at all confident in noticing breast changes whereas only 1.2% of them were fairly confident ,27.4% saw a doctor about noticed breast changed whereas 44.9% of the women never noticed breast changes. Conclusion: Minority of adult women attending family medicine clinic and women health center, King Khalid Armed Forces hospital, Tabuk have sufficient knowledge of breast cancer. Most of them rarely or never checked their breast and not at all confident in noticing breast changes.

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“…Studies report variable association of breast cancer related knowledge among women of different age groups. It has been reported from a primary health care setting that older women had poorer breast cancer related knowledge as compared to younger women (Dolen et al 1997) while a recent study conducted on general women population in Kuwait shows that older women (>50 years) are more knowledgeable about breast cancer related facts (Saeed et al 2014). To the authors knowledge there is no reported study to find association of age with the improvement in knowledge score after the awareness activity.…”

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Impact of a Breast Health Awareness Activity on the Knowledge Level of the Participants and its Association with Socio-Demographic Features

Khokher¹,

Qureshi²,

Fatima³

et al. 2015

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

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The developing countries have higher mortality rates for breast cancer. A reason for this is presentation at advanced stages due to low levels of public awareness. Activities are arranged by health authorities of developing countries to increase the knowledge of women but their effectiveness has not been evaluated in detail. A multiple choice questionnaire with questions about socio-demographic profile and questions about breast cancer knowledge was designed in local language Urdu, to evaluate the knowledge of the participants before and after an audio visual educational activity in Lahore, Pakistan. Scores of 0-2, 3-5 and 6-8 were ranked as poor, fair and good, respectively. Among 146 participants these scores were achieved by 1%, 55% and 45% before activity and 0%, 16% and 84% after the activity. Overall 66% of participants increased their knowledge score. Younger age, higher education, reliance on television as source of information and being a housewife were associated with better impact of the awareness activity. For the six knowledge related questions 3%, 5%, 11%, 23%, 33% and 44% more participants gave correct answers after the activity. However 6% and 7% fewer participants answered correctly for 2 questions related to the cause and the best prevention for breast cancer. The study indicated that awareness activities are effective to increase the knowledge of women and better impact is associated with higher education and younger age of women. The component analysis showed that the questions and related presentations using medical terms have a negative impact and should not therefore be used. Analysis of activity therefore leads to identification of deficiencies which can be remedied in future.

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Are Women in Kuwait Aware of Breast Cancer and Its Diagnostic Procedures?

Cited by 27 publications

References 17 publications

Effect of a Breast-Self Examination (BSE) Educational Intervention among Female University Students

Effect of a Breast-Self Examination (BSE) Educational Intervention among Female University Students

Breast Cancer Knowledge, Attitudes and Practice Among Women in King Khalid Armed Forces Hospital, Tabuk 2017.

Impact of a Breast Health Awareness Activity on the Knowledge Level of the Participants and its Association with Socio-Demographic Features

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