Beliefs Related to Breast Cancer and Breast Cancer Screening Among Lebanese Armenian Women
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15216672 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mary Arevian (American University of Beirut, corresponding author), Samar Noureddine (0000-0001-5133-0913, American University of Beirut), Sarah Abboud (0000-0002-3822-7484, American University of Beirut) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 972-989 |
| Publication date | 2011-10-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Health Care For Women International (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0739-9332 • E-ISSN: 1096-4665 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07399332.2011.580405 |
| PMID | 21978144 |
| OpenAlex | W2061107073 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 15 |
Our purpose of this article was to investigate women's beliefs about breast cancer, breast cancer screening, and intervention programs. We designed the study using a cross-sectional/descriptive correlation. The participants were drawn from a convenience sample (N=94). The instrument included Champion's Revised Health Belief Model Scale (CHBMS). Analysis was performed using SPSS (2005), 15.0. More than sixty-four percent (64.8%) of women surveyed were over 41. Results showed that 80.9% of women surveyed had heard of breast self-exams (BSEs), while 76.6% had heard of mammography. However, 53.2% never practiced breast self-examinations, and 79.6% never underwent mammography. Mean belief scores follow: low susceptibility (14.32), barriers to BSE (15.24), barriers to mammography (14.85), high seriousness (23.42), benefits to breast self-examination (22.7), confidence (36.45), health motivation (27.27), and benefits to mammography (24.28). Significant relationships included the relationship between barriers to breast self-examination and whether women had heard about breast self-examinations (p=.02); the relationship between susceptibility and whether women had heard of or underwent mammography (p=.027); the relationship between confidence and whether women had heard of mammography (p=.056); the relationship between confidence and perceived financial status (p=.05); and benefits of mammography (p=.05). Appropriate interventions are developed
Breast cancer · Breast cancer screening · Breast self-examination · Cancer · Confidence interval · Family medicine · Gynecology · Health belief model · Health education · Mammography · Obstetrics · Odds ratio · Public health · BRCA gene mutations in cancer · Demography · Global Cancer Incidence and Screening · Health Literacy and Information Accessibility · Medicine · Nursing · Internal Medicine
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,23 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2018 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |