Khazaee-pool Maryam, Majlessi Fereshteh, Foroushani Abbass Rahimi, Montazeri Ali, Nedjat Saharnaz, Shojaeizadeh Davoud, Tol Azare, Salimzadeh Hamideh
Department of Health Education and Promotion, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran E-mail :
Asian Pac J Cancer Prev. 2014;15(9):3965-71. doi: 10.7314/apjcp.2014.15.9.3965.
In Iran, there are high rates of breast cancer. It is among the five most common cancers, the first among cancers diagnosed, and is the leading cause of cancer deaths among Iranian women.
The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore perception of breast cancer screening among Iranian women who have never had a mammograph.
The current study was part of a qualitative research conducted by means of content analysis method and purposive sampling of 16 women over the age of 30 years who had not undergone mammography using individual semi-structured interviews. Interviews were recorded and transcribed verbatim. The data were under continuous consideration and comparative analysis in order to achieve data saturation.
After codification of data, three concept categories were achieved including: i) low awareness, ii) worries, and iii) lack of motivation.
Although there is a tendency among Iranian women to participate in breast cancer screening, there is a powerful cultural belief that breasts are sexual organs that should not be discussed publicly. Due to the incidence of breast cancer in Iranian women, it is critical that breast awareness education be performed by health care experts to explore the concepts of breast cancer and breast cancer screening.
在伊朗，乳腺癌发病率很高。它是五种最常见的癌症之一，在确诊癌症中位居首位，并且是伊朗女性癌症死亡的主要原因。
这项定性研究的目的是探索从未进行过乳房X光检查的伊朗女性对乳腺癌筛查的认知。
本研究是一项定性研究的一部分，采用内容分析法和目的抽样法，对16名30岁以上未进行过乳房X光检查的女性进行个体半结构式访谈。访谈进行录音并逐字转录。为了达到数据饱和，对数据进行持续考量和对比分析。
数据编码后得到三个概念类别，包括：i）认知不足，ii）担忧，iii）缺乏动力。
尽管伊朗女性有参与乳腺癌筛查的倾向，但存在一种强烈的文化观念，即乳房是不应公开讨论的性器官。鉴于伊朗女性乳腺癌的发病率，医疗保健专家开展乳房健康意识教育以探讨乳腺癌和乳腺癌筛查的概念至关重要。
