School of Health Sciences, Walden University, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55401, USA.
J Am Coll Health. 2011;59(7):640-7. doi: 10.1080/07448481.2010.528098.
This study examined female college students' knowledge, attitudes, and breast cancer screening and determined significant predictors of breast self-examination, clinical breast examination, and mammography among this population.
A convenience sample of 1,074 college women from 3 universities participated in the research.
Respondents completed an online version of the Toronto Breast Self-examination Instrument as well as questions developed by the authors.
Descriptive statistics showed gaps in college women's knowledge of breast health and negative attitudes toward screening that were relative to age. Multiple linear and logistic regression analyses revealed that knowledge, attitudes, and copay were significant predictors of screening, whereas family history and ethnicity were not.
This study supported previous smaller-sample studies that showed college women to be a priority population for breast health education and revealed new significant factors that should be addressed in health education for this group.
本研究考察了女大学生的知识、态度以及乳腺癌筛查情况，并确定了该人群中进行自我乳房检查、临床乳房检查和乳房 X 光检查的重要预测因素。
来自 3 所大学的 1074 名女大学生参加了这项研究。
受访者完成了在线版的多伦多乳房自我检查工具以及作者开发的问题。
描述性统计数据显示，大学生群体在乳房健康知识和对筛查的消极态度方面存在差距，且这些差距与年龄有关。多元线性和逻辑回归分析表明，知识、态度和共付额是筛查的重要预测因素，而家族史和种族则不是。
本研究支持了先前较小样本研究的结果，即大学生是乳房健康教育的重点人群，并揭示了该群体健康教育中应解决的新的重要因素。
