Health beliefs and breast self‐examination in a sample of Turkish nursing students and their mothers

Kara, Belguezar; Açıkel, Cengiz Han

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2702.2007.02241.x

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“…HBM has been used in many health care settings in order to examine many and different health care behaviours and attitudes such as weight management [22], x-ray screening tests [44,45], sexual behaviours [46], coronary heart disease preventive behaviours [47], vaccination behaviours [48,49], diabetes management perceptions [37], nutrition [50], self breast examination perceptions [51-53], prescribed medication compliance [54], and perceptions on the Papanicolaou test [55]. It has also been previously tested and found as an appropriate theoretical model to use for measuring attitudes of nurses and health care workers towards implementing certain aspects of universal precautions from occupational exposure to pathogens [8,56,57].…”

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Factors influencing nurses' compliance with Standard Precautions in order to avoid occupational exposure to microorganisms: A focus group study

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BackgroundNurses may acquire an infection during the provision of nursing care because of occupational exposure to microorganisms. Relevant literature reports that, compliance with Standard Precautions (a set of guidelines that can protect health care professionals from being exposed to microorganisms) is low among nurses. Additionally, high rates of exposure to microorganisms among nurses via several modes (needlesticks, hand contamination with blood, exposure to air-transmitted microorganisms) occur. The aim of the study was to study the factors that influence nurses' compliance with Standard Precaution in order to avoid occupational exposure to pathogens, by employing a qualitative research design.MethodA focus group approach was used to explore the issue under study. Four focus groups (N = 30) were organised to elicit nurses' perception of the factors that influence their compliance with Standard Precautions. The Health Belief Model (HBM) was used as the theoretical framework and the data were analysed according to predetermined criteria.ResultsFollowing content analysis, factors that influence nurses' compliance emerged. Most factors could be applied to one of the main domains of the HBM: benefits, barriers, severity, susceptibility, cues to action, and self-efficacy.ConclusionsChanging current behavior requires knowledge of the factors that may influence nurses' compliance with Standard Precautions. This knowledge will facilitate in the implementation of programs and preventive actions that contribute in avoiding of occupational exposure.

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Factors influencing nurses' compliance with Standard Precautions in order to avoid occupational exposure to microorganisms: A focus group study

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“…Furthermore, some studies assessed the health beliefs about, and the knowledge and practice of BSE among nursing students . The majority of these studies were comparative, focusing on how knowledge of BSE differed between nursing and midwifery students, and how health beliefs differed between nursing students and their mothers, and between nursing students of two countries . These studies reported that nursing students performed BSEs regularly and had sufficient information about them .…”

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“…The majority of these studies were comparative, focusing on how knowledge of BSE differed between nursing and midwifery students, and how health beliefs differed between nursing students and their mothers, and between nursing students of two countries . These studies reported that nursing students performed BSEs regularly and had sufficient information about them . Kara & Acikel, in a comparative study of health beliefs between nursing students and their mothers, found that nursing students scored higher on health motivation, benefits of BSE and confidence about performing BSE, whereas their mothers scored high on perceived susceptibility to breast cancer and barriers to BSE.…”

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Perceptions and health beliefs of Greek nursing students about breast self‐examination: A descriptive study

Lavdaniti

2014

Int J of Nursing Practice

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Breast self-examination is a screening option for young women. Among students, knowledge about breast self-examination ranges from insufficient to average. This descriptive study was planned in order to determine the health beliefs and perceptions of nursing students regarding breast self-examinations. We recruited 538 nursing students in a single Higher Technological Educational Institute in Greece. Data were collected using the Champion's Health Belief Model Scale. Parametric tests were used in the data analysis. We found significant differences in the results of the subscales of Champion's Health Belief Model Scale on comparing people with respect to nationality, previous education about breast self-examination, smoking status and semester in which they were studying. The 'confidence' subscale was positively associated with the frequency of breast self-examination. The results of the present study demonstrated that nursing students have knowledge about breast-self examination but inadequate practice.

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“…32 In addition, Monthly performance of breast self-examination was more common among women who have recently graduated from high school and university. 35 In this study, the knowledge of students after the intervention had increased and become better. Results of this study was supported by research conducted by Shalini and Malathi, 26 where 72.5% of students had average knowledge about BSE in pretest (before education) and 85% students had good knowledge score in the posttest (after education).…”

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“…34 In addition, there were differences in health belief about BSE and its practice between nursing and their mothers. 35 While other studies show that the female university students have mild knowledge of breast cancer symptoms and management. They did not know about the causes and risk factors of breast cancer.…”

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The effect of health promotion about breast self-examination for student's knowledge at the first senior high school of Enam Lingkung Padang Pariaman

Herman

Novriani²,

Putri³

2015

Int J Res Med Sci

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INTRODUCTIONBreast cancer is one of the health problems in Indonesia and the World. 1 In the latest few years, there is an increasing in the incidence of breast cancer and is the leading cause of death among women in developing countries.2-5 The incidence of breast cancer reached 17 million people (11.9%) of the total population. 4 The data from Indonesian health survey showed that breast cancer is still the cause of high morbidity and mortality in women on 2012. Meanwhile, the data from hospital information system (SIRS) 2012, Breast cancer is the most common cancer type in all hospitals in Indonesia (16.85%), followed by cervical cancer (11.78%). In West Sumatra, incidence rate of breast cancer is about 1.7% higher than the national average (1.4%). ABSTRACTBackground: Breast self-examination (BSE) is one of the interventions to detect the breast cancer earlier. Nowadays, BSE didn't known by the many adolescent and young women, so that it is needed to do promotive effort to increase their knowledge about BSE. The objective of this study was to determine the effect of health promotion about breast self-examination for Student's knowledge at the first senior high school of Enam Lingkung Padang Pariaman. Methods: The research design was pre experimental with one-group pre-posttest design approach and was conducted on July 2014. The samples were students in tenth and eleventh class, which was taken by simple random sampling technique and the number of samples, were 75 people. Results: The survey results revealed an average score of knowledge before the intervention was (59.33) with a standard deviation (12.284), and average knowledge score after the intervention was (88.40) with standard deviation (7.220). The difference of the average scores of knowledge before and after the intervention was (29.067). The statistic test indicated that there was a difference of average score of knowledge before and after intervention with p value was (0.000). Conclusions: It can be expected for health professional to increase prevention efforts of breast cancer through health promotion about BSE in the school and community.

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Health beliefs and breast self‐examination in a sample of Turkish nursing students and their mothers

Cited by 16 publications

References 39 publications

Factors influencing nurses' compliance with Standard Precautions in order to avoid occupational exposure to microorganisms: A focus group study

Factors influencing nurses' compliance with Standard Precautions in order to avoid occupational exposure to microorganisms: A focus group study

Perceptions and health beliefs of Greek nursing students about breast self‐examination: A descriptive study

The effect of health promotion about breast self-examination for student's knowledge at the first senior high school of Enam Lingkung Padang Pariaman

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