study of knowledge, attitude, and practice among fertile females towards breast cancer in a rural area

ABSTRACT

The aim of this work is to study knowledge, attitude, and practice towards breast cancer among fertile females in an Egyptian rural area. The study was conducted on 400 fertile females selected randomly from El-Manawate Village, Giza Governorate during the period from December 1992 to the end of December [1993. It was found that married women had a better knowledge about breast sorer than did single females. The percentage of women who considered that early puberty and late menopause as risk factors for breast cancer was less than 5%, while the percentage of those had knowledge about the curly signs of breast cancer was about 30%. All married females of our sample preferred to consult a doctor if there was any breast ailment while only one quarter of single females made this choice. It was recommended that a well designed programme for health education of fertile females must he carried out mainly through mass media TV. as well as training physicians and nursing stuff on performing health education of the target fertile females