Knowledge and attitudes of breast self examination in a group of women in Shiraz, southern Iran

Simi, Ashraf; Yadollahie, Mahboobeh; Habibzadeh, Farrokh

doi:10.1136/pgmj.2008.072678

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“…For example, a study by Simi et al (2009) found out that 43% of Iranian women’s self-breast examination behavior is explained by their attitudes alone; where by 9% of the women indicated that they do not perform breast self-examination out of fear of a positive outcome, and 34% perceived breast self-examination as useless and unnecessary. Along the same lines, Lamyian et al .…”

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The Impact of Breast Cancer Knowledge and Attitudes on Screening and Early Detection Among an Immigrant Iranian Population in Southern California

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“…3,[13][14][15] This study has been carried out among 400 health professionals of tertiary care hospital of central India with basic intention to see the seriousness of health professionals themselves about BSE.…”

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Are health professionals serious about breast self-examination? a study from a medical college and tertiary level hospital of Central India

Kawalkar

Koparkar

2017

Int J Res Med Sci

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Background: Breast cancer is increasing in prevalence all over the world and health professionals are having main responsibility to counter this rapid increase by early diagnosis and prompt treatment. Breast self-examination is cheapest, easy and most cost-effective way of screening of breast cancer. If health professionals themselves know, understand and practice BSE, then only they are expected to be oriented towards taking this tool seriously and include in their practice. Therefore, to study breast self-examination (BSE) among Health professionals in tertiary hospital this study was conducted.Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted at a medical college and tertiary level hospital in Nagpur, from August 2016 to October 2016. All female Interns, female Post-graduate students, all female teaching staff in all clinical, para-clinical and non-clinical departments and nurses were included in the study. Total 400 Health professionals had participated in this study. Data entry and analysis was done using EPI-Info.Results: In this study, 93.75% of participants were having knowledge regarding BSE but only 86.36% practically knew how to do BSE. Moreover only 74.75% were practicing BSE (at least once in a month). Common reasons for not practicing BSE were ‘not having time’, ‘don’t feel it’s necessary’ and ‘feels awkward’.Conclusions: This study revealed that there is strong need of intervention in health professionals in making them aware of BSE, to improve knowledge and making BSE a universal practice them.

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Statistical Data Editing in Scientific Articles

Habibzadeh

2017

J Korean Med Sci

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Scientific journals are important scholarly forums for sharing research findings. Editors have important roles in safeguarding standards of scientific publication and should be familiar with correct presentation of results, among other core competencies. Editors do not have access to the raw data and should thus rely on clues in the submitted manuscripts. To identify probable errors, they should look for inconsistencies in presented results. Common statistical problems that can be picked up by a knowledgeable manuscript editor are discussed in this article. Manuscripts should contain a detailed section on statistical analyses of the data. Numbers should be reported with appropriate precisions. Standard error of the mean (SEM) should not be reported as an index of data dispersion. Mean (standard deviation [SD]) and median (interquartile range [IQR]) should be used for description of normally and non-normally distributed data, respectively. If possible, it is better to report 95% confidence interval (CI) for statistics, at least for main outcome variables. And, P values should be presented, and interpreted with caution, if there is a hypothesis. To advance knowledge and skills of their members, associations of journal editors are better to develop training courses on basic statistics and research methodology for non-experts. This would in turn improve research reporting and safeguard the body of scientific evidence.

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Knowledge and attitudes of breast self examination in a group of women in Shiraz, southern Iran

Cited by 17 publications

References 19 publications

The Impact of Breast Cancer Knowledge and Attitudes on Screening and Early Detection Among an Immigrant Iranian Population in Southern California

The Impact of Breast Cancer Knowledge and Attitudes on Screening and Early Detection Among an Immigrant Iranian Population in Southern California

Are health professionals serious about breast self-examination? a study from a medical college and tertiary level hospital of Central India

Statistical Data Editing in Scientific Articles

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