Beliefs and behavior of Malaysia undergraduate female students in a public university toward breast self-examination practice.
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...Akhtari- 252 Female Mean age 37% practise breast self examination (BSE), motivation and self-efficacy Zavare undergraduates 22 years old higher in those who practise BSE et al 2013 (49) UPM...
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...The HBM was developed by Becker (1974) [15] and modified by Rostenstock (1990) [16], and it may be beneficial in exploring the factors influencing women’s breast cancer screening behaviors [17]....
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...These findings are support by Akhtari-Zavare et al. (2013) that reported 97% of the participants heard about BSE, only 36.7% stated that they performed BSE and among those who practice BSE, most of them practice BSE occasionally (50, 57.5%)....
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...The emergence of breast disease and the subsequent development of cancer tend to be more aggressive in young women compared with breast cancer progression in the older population (Anders et al., 2008)....
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...The high mortality rate among young women mainly due to lack of breast cancer awareness (Anders et al., 2008)....
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...Another study found that the low rate of BSE among Iranian women was related to socio-economic status, low level of education and lack of knowledge regarding the conduct of BSE (Montazeri et al., 2008)....
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...Delay in diagnosis and treatment of this disease decreases survival rates (Yip et al., 2006)....
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