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Background: Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women and a leading cause of death worldwide, including in India. Breast cancer usually shows a slow development rate, and when recognized in the early stages, successful treatment results can be achieved. Breast self-examination is a screening option for young women. Objective: To assess the impact of health education on knowledge and attitude of self-breast examination among nursing students. Study Design: The present interventional study was conducted between September and October 2019. Setting: This study was done among 79 nursing students of a tertiary care hospital situated in a central district of Uttar Pradesh. Main Outcome Measures: The self-reported pre-designed and structured questionnaire was used. It included three sections Sociodemographic profile Knowledge regarding self-breast examination (SBE) 3. Attitude regarding self-breast examination (SBE). Knowledge and attitude scores were calculated and divided into the poor, average, and good categories. Results: There were 87.3% of girls had prior knowledge of the self-breast examination, while 12.7% of girls were not aware of the self-breast examination. Postintervention, there was a significant increase (p<0.05) in their knowledge about self-breast examination. Conclusion: Planned teaching intervention had a significant impact on the knowledge and attitude of self-breast examination.
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Objective: Breast cancer is the leading cause of mortality and morbidity among the females in India. Breast Self-examination (BSE) can play a huge role in early detection and diagnosis thereby signi?cantly reduce morbidity, and prompt timely treatment. The main aim of the study was to access the Knowledge, attitude and practice of breast self-examination and cancer awareness among the female healthcare workers. The cross-sectional pilot Methodology: study was conducted in Supercare hospital, Shillong and 27 female workers responded to the questioner. The questioners were divided into three categories to access the Knowledge, attitude and practice of BSE and awareness of breast cancer. Results: 22.22% of the participants had very good knowledge of breast cancer and BSE, 74% had good knowledge and 3.7% had average knowledge. 40.51±4.9 is the mean and SD for the knowledge for breast cancer and self-breast awareness. 48% respondents average practice BSE and 11% good and 41% poor practice of BSE was observed. The female healthcare workers attitude towards BSE was overall good. Majority of the respondents are aware of breast cancer but very few Conclusion: practice breast self-examination. It is recommended to educate and train female health worker to act as peer educator who are agent of health care information to the community and the society at large.
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Background: In India, breast cancer is the second most common malignancy among women next to carcinoma of cervix. Since it present as a painless lump patient often neglect and present to hospital late. With increasing prominence and greater visibility in country specific health profiles around the world, breast cancer and its prevention detection and treatment will continue to emerge as a major priority and challenge for health system. As carcinoma of breast is a quite common clinical problem encountered in clinical practice, this study was an attempt to study clinical presentation modes of management of the disease.Methods: 50 patients who were admitted with a diagnosis of carcinoma breast were studied though history taking, clinical examination, relevant investigations depending on the stage of the disease. After completion, the results were analysed using Microsoft excel software and are compared with other studies.Results: Majority of patients belonging to age group 41-50 years (42%) with lump as major complaint at the time of presentation (78%). Disease in most patients was on upper outer quadrant (78%). Majority of patients belong to stage II (84%) of the disease clinically.Conclusions: The simple and effective methods of detecting the disease early like self-breast examination, clinical breast examination, ultrasonography, mammography, fine needle aspiration cytology should be made aware among the people for early detection and effective treatment of the disease.
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Background: Breast cancer is one of the most dangerous and lately diagnosed cancers which precipitate high number of morbidity and mortality. Breast cancer is now the most common cancer in most cities in India. To prevent its occurrence, women should be aware of early signs of it. Early detection can be done by different screening techniques such as self-breast examination, clinical examination, and mammogram. Objectives: The objectives of this study were as follows: (a) To assess the awareness regarding breast cancer and their screening techniques among women and (b) to find out the associated factors of breast cancer and their awareness among women. Materials and Methods: The study was carried out among 100 women selected by purposive sampling residing in the field practice area of Gujarat Medical Education and Research Society Medical College, Dharpur, Patan, during January 2019–March 2019 after approval of the institutional ethics committee. Self-tested semi-structured questionnaire was used after performing a pilot study. Results: Very few female had personal and family history of breast cancer. Awareness regarding breast cancer was found higher in educated as compared to illiterate. Working women had more knowledge regarding the issue than housewife. Awareness regarding how often breast self-examination (BSE) should be performed and what to look for while doing BSE was awareness regarding BSE as a screening tool was found only in half of the study participants. Conclusions: The study participants who had personal and family history of breast cancer were well aware of the clinical signs of breast cancer and its screening techniques. Literate and working women were having more knowledge regarding breast cancer. Overall awareness regarding the disease and its screening techniques was low in the study population.
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Breast cancer (BC) is an important cause of morbidity and mortality. The early detection of BC and its early and adequate treatment increases the chance of survival of patients. Breast Health Global Initiative guidelines for low and middle income countries suggests that diagnosing BC early by promoting self awareness and clinical breast examination (CBE) will reduce BC mortality. There is a paucity of data related to knowledge and awareness of BC in Bihar. We designed this hospital based cross sectional descriptive study to evaluate the current status of knowledge; attitude and practices (KAP) related to BC in the female rural population attending a tertiary care teaching hospital in Rohtas, Bihar. Methods: A random sampling was done to identify and enrol 400 women and their female relatives. Women who had already undergone a screening mammography or had a BC were excluded from the study sample. The data was collected by a self-administered questionnaire in local vernacular language. Results: The mean age of study population was 45.21 (±10.2) years. Only 5 (1.25%) females had a family history of BC. A whopping 82.75% of women did not have any knowledge about BC. Almost all of the women had firm belief that CBE by doctors was the only way for detecting BC. Conclusion: It is imperative to increase awareness about BC and its early detection methods in the community through health education campaigns. The government should have major policy changes to increase future screening programmes which could have an overall positive impact on reducing the BC burden in community.
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BACKGROUND: Breast cancer (BC) continues to be a major cause of morbidity and mortality throughout the world. Early detection of BC and early treatment increases the chance of survival. According to Breast Health Global Initiative guidelines for low and middle income countries, diagnosing BCs early by promoting breast self‑awareness; clinical breast examination (CBE) and resource adapted mammographic screening will reduce BC mortality. There is a paucity of data on the knowledge and awareness of BC and self‑breast examination in India. We designed this hospital based cross sectional descriptive study to evaluate the current status of knowledge, awareness and practices related to BC and breast self‑examination in the female rural population attending a teaching hospital. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We did a random sampling to identify and enroll 360 women and their female relatives. We excluded a participant from the study if she had already undergone a screening mammography or had had a BC. The data was collected by a self‑administered questionnaire in vernacular language. RESULTS: Our study population included 360 women with a mean age of 45.81 (±10.9) years. Only 5 (1.38%) females had a family history of BC. A whopping 81% of women did not have any knowledge about BC. All the women thought that CBE by doctors was the only way for screening BC. CONCLUSIONS: We concluded that with the results of this study, it is imperative to increase awareness about BC and its detection methods in the community through health education campaigns. We should have major policy changes to increase future screening programs and health education programs which would have an overall positive impact on reducing the disease burden.