Reisi Mahnoush, Javadzade Seyed Homamodin, Sharifirad Gholamreza
Department of Health Education and Health Promotion, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, IUMS, Isfahan, Iran.
J Educ Health Promot. 2013 Aug 31;2:46. doi: 10.4103/2277-9531.117417. eCollection 2013.
Breast cancer as a most common organ cancer in women is the first cause of death among women with 40-45 years old. The only way to control this disease is early detection, that it can be treated in about 90% of women with breast cancer. The best way for early detection of breast cancer is screening, and the best accessible way is breast self-examination (BSE). Considering this fact that female health workers are responsible for improvement of public health, in addition to self-care, they can encourage the clients and help to improve healthy goals. Therefore, this study investigates the knowledge, attitudes, and practice (KAP) of BS E among female health workers.
This descriptive cross-sectional study was done among 119 female health workers in Isfahan, working in healthcare centers. The method of sampling was clustering. KAP of theses participants were assessed with KAP questioner. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics methods.
The mean age of participants was 38/3 ± 7/27. The knowledge about breast cancer and doing B SE was good (79/8%) in most participants and (72/45%) of them have positive attitudes, but only (39/5%) of the samples performed BSE regularly every month. A significant relationship was found between the attitudes and the university degree of the health workers and also between age, university degree, and the times of taking part in education classes with performing BSE in the best time for BSE (P < 0.005). A total of 12/6% of them did not have a good performance.
Considering that health workers can play an important role in encouraging the clients to perform healthy and preventive behaviors, their weak behavior is not acceptable in these groups. This result also shows that additional studies are needed to identify the factors that make women using screening services and encourage them for using these methods.
乳腺癌是女性中最常见的器官癌症，是40 - 45岁女性死亡的首要原因。控制这种疾病的唯一方法是早期发现，约90%的乳腺癌女性患者可得到治疗。早期发现乳腺癌的最佳方法是筛查，而最容易做到的方法是乳房自我检查（BSE）。鉴于女性卫生工作者负责改善公众健康，除了自我保健外，她们还可以鼓励服务对象并帮助实现健康目标。因此，本研究调查了女性卫生工作者对乳房自我检查的知识、态度和实践（KAP）。
本描述性横断面研究在伊斯法罕的119名在医疗中心工作的女性卫生工作者中进行。抽样方法为整群抽样。通过KAP问卷评估这些参与者的KAP。收集的数据使用描述性和推断性统计方法进行分析。
参与者的平均年龄为38.3±7.27岁。大多数参与者对乳腺癌和进行乳房自我检查的知识掌握良好（79.8%），其中72.45%态度积极，但只有39.5%的样本每月定期进行乳房自我检查。发现卫生工作者的态度与大学学历之间以及年龄、大学学历和参加教育课程次数与在最佳时间进行乳房自我检查之间存在显著关系（P<0.005）。共有12.6%的人表现不佳。
鉴于卫生工作者在鼓励服务对象采取健康和预防行为方面可发挥重要作用，这些群体中他们的薄弱行为是不可接受的。这一结果还表明，需要进一步研究以确定促使女性使用筛查服务并鼓励她们采用这些方法的因素。
