Norfariha Che Mohamed

TL;DR: The designed questionnaire was a valid and reliable instrument that combined the basic components of the health belief model with a focus on breast self-examination and screening mammogram amongst women and can help to assess women’s beliefs on BSE adoption and mammogram screening in health care practice and research.

TL;DR: It is found that most women in Kuantan, Pahang perform BSE but were still unaware of the importance of performing BSE for early breast cancer detection, and significant difference was found between socio-demographic characteristics and behavioral adoption of BSE.

TL;DR: Self-efficacy was found as the core construct that mediates the relationship between married women aged 45 to 55 years and the behavioral adoption of BSE, and can promote confidence in initiating and maintenance of behavioral change if the perceived change is beneficial at an acceptable cost.

TL;DR: The modified lateral technique can be used to replace the Swimmer’s view to adequately demonstrate the lower cervical spine and cervicothoracic junction with a lower radiation dose while not harming the patient due to movement during positioning.

TL;DR: In this article, a multi-stage, stratified random sampling method was utilized to select the polyclinics in Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia for screening women.