de Oliveira Rosy Denyse Pinheiro, Santos Míria Conceição Lavinas, Moreira Camila Brasil, Fernandes Ana Fátima Carvalho
Department of Nursing, Federal University of Ceará, Alexandre Baraúna Street, 1115, Fortaleza, 60430-160, Brazil.
J Cancer Educ. 2018 Oct;33(5):1082-1087. doi: 10.1007/s13187-017-1209-4.
In rural area, control of breast cancer is related to health promotion and early diagnosis, which includes knowledge, awareness, and stimulating behavioral change, emphasizing screening for disease. The present study was developed to assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice of rural women about early detection of breast cancer in the Primary Health Care Centre. This is a cross-sectional study in a Primary Health Care Centre with 243 rural women participating in the public health service. Data collection was made by a self-administered questionnaire which included sociodemographic characteristics, questions on breast cancer risk factors, screening, and diagnostic methods. Marks were attributed to each question and calculated for each section. Participants fell in three categories of knowledge, attitude, and practice: appropriate, regular and inappropriate. Knowledge, attitude, and practice of early detection methods were considered especially appropriate for those rural women with education and higher economic level, but inadequate responses to such methods were still significant. It is noted that there is still a significant number of rural women who do not have basic knowledge regarding early detection methods of breast cancer, contributing to the non-realization of these methods, as its advocates.
在农村地区，乳腺癌的控制与健康促进和早期诊断相关，这包括知识、意识以及促进行为改变，强调疾病筛查。本研究旨在评估农村妇女在初级卫生保健中心对乳腺癌早期检测的知识、态度和实践情况。这是一项在初级卫生保健中心开展的横断面研究，有243名农村妇女参与公共卫生服务。通过一份自填式问卷进行数据收集，问卷包括社会人口学特征、关于乳腺癌风险因素、筛查和诊断方法的问题。每个问题都有相应分值，并对每个部分进行计算。参与者在知识、态度和实践方面分为三类：恰当、一般和不恰当。早期检测方法的知识、态度和实践对于那些受过教育且经济水平较高的农村妇女而言被认为尤其恰当，但对这些方法的回答不充分的情况仍然很显著。值得注意的是，仍有相当数量的农村妇女对乳腺癌早期检测方法没有基本知识，这导致这些方法无法得到推行，而她们正是这些方法的倡导者。
