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Factors associated with breast cancer screening behaviours in a sample of Turkish women: A questionnaire survey
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Higher seriousness of breast cancer, higher benefits of having mammography, having heard/read about Mammography, and having a gynaecologist as a regular physician were significantly associated withHaving mammography.About:
This article is published in International Journal of Nursing Studies.The article was published on 2006-02-01. It has received 217 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Breast cancer screening & Breast self-examination.read more
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Research Article The effect of health promotion about breast self-examination for student's knowledge at the first senior high school of Enam Lingkung Padang Pariaman
TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of health promotion about breast self-examination for student's knowledge at the first senior high school of Enam Lingkung Padang Pariaman was determined.
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Exploring factors associated with breast cancer screening among women aged 15 - 49 years in Lesotho
TL;DR: In this article, the prevalence of breast cancer screening using the clinical breast examination (CBE) and breast self-examination (BSE) methods among women aged 15-49 years, and the secondary objective was to explore demographic and socio-economic factors associated with clinical BE and BSE.
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A case-control study of the lipid profile of women with breast cancer
Katarzyna Piasecka,Andrzej Stanisławek,Elżbieta Stasiak,Anna Irzmańska-Hudziak,Katarzyna Kociuba-Adamczuk +4 more
TL;DR: Community and oncology nurses, having considerable knowledge about health and lifestyle of their patients, should be more involved in basic education to decrease cancer risk, especially by women with alarming LDL-C level.
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Nurses' knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding breast cancerscreening in the Sousse region of Tunisia: a cross-sectional descriptive study.
TL;DR: It is important to highlight those practicing nurses (those working in the basic healthcare centers) should receive training in advising patients in the practice of breast self-examination so that they can educate and tell women attending BHC.
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The Influence of Sociodemographic Factors on Women’s Breast Cancer Screening in Accra, Ghana
TL;DR: While educational level and employment were positively associated with BSE, a regular visit to healthcare providers was negatively associated with mammogram screening, and introducing oncology social work to the curriculum of social work educational programs in Ghana is needed to prepare social workers to address psychosocial challenges relating to breast cancer.
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The Practice of Nursing Research: Conduct, Critique, & Utilization
Nancy,Burns,Suan K .Grove +2 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a survey of the state of the art in qualitative and quantitative research in the field of nursing, focusing on the following: 1) Introduction to Quantitative Research.
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Why People Use Health Services
TL;DR: To increase professional health workers’ knowledge of selected research findings and theory so that they may better understand why and under what conditions people take action to prevent, detect and diagnose disease, this paper aims to increase awareness among qualified behavioral scientists about the kinds of behavioral research opportunities and needs that exist in public health.
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Cochrane review on screening for breast cancer with mammography.
Ole Olsen,Peter C Gøtzsche +1 more
TL;DR: A Cochrane review has confirmed and strengthened previous findings that there is no reliable evidence that screening for breast cancer reduces mortality and shows that breast-cancer mortality is a misleading outcome measure.
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Estimates of the world-wide prevalence of cancer for 25 sites in the adult population.
TL;DR: World‐wide estimates of 1‐, 2–3‐ and 4–5‐year point prevalence in 1990 in the population aged 15 years or over are reported and the number of cancer cases diagnosed between 1986 and 1990 who were still alive at the end of 1990 is described.
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Revised susceptibility, benefits, and barriers scale for mammography screening.
TL;DR: The purpose of this research was to revise scales measuring perceived susceptibility to breast cancer and perceived benefits and barriers to mammography utilization and these scales represent an improvement in those previously reported.