Factors Affecting Utilization of Mammogram Screening among Palestinian Women Aged40 years and above, in Bethlehem District.

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Back ground: Breast cancer is the most common type cancer in women around the world, and the second leading cause of death among womenaccording to American Cancer Society, (ACS 2009). This is also true for Palestine.Mammogram screening is the method of early detection of breast cancer and can help inearly treatment of the disease, but in Palestine mammography utilizationis low compared with other countries, Afew research projects have analyzed why this utilization is low and how social determinants affect this utilization. Aim: The objective of this study is to examine the factors affecting the utilization of mammogram screening among women aged 40 years and above in Bethlehem district. Method: The participants of this cross-sectional and descriptive study were 511 women, those who never had a mammogram or had undergone one more than two years ago, women with previously diagnosed breast cancer were excluded from the sample. A printed questionnaire covering socio-demographic variables, family history of breast cancer, Brest Self Examination (BSE)and mammography practices, andattitudes and knowledge of mammography, barriers, were filled outin self administrative and face-to-face interviews with trained female stafffor those illiterate. Frequencies and descriptive analysis, t-test, chi-square test, ANOVA test, Tukey test were applied. Results: the study found that the majority of the sample have low knowledge about BSE (40.4% have a moderate level, 20.4% low level, and 14.9% don’t know about BSE), also the majority (35.6%) had a moderate level of knowledge about mammogram screening, 23.9% had weak level, and 24.8% didn’t have knowledge about mammogram. 48% of the participants didn’t practice BSE 54% didn’t have any examinations of early detection for cancer 74.4% of the women had health insurance and 68.2% of them had public insurance. Analysis of the differencesbetween the knowledge level about mammogram, practice and attitude toward BSE and mammogram,with demographic characteristics were performed.The study results of descriptive analysis identifiedthe barriers which prevent the women in Bethlehem district from getting mammogram screening, which were related to (lack of IVmammogram unit in their town, lack of national program and advocacyfor screening, long waitingtime to do mammogram, also referral action to order the exam), These represented health system barriers, then themedical provider barriers (there is no doctor order to ask the women to undergo thetest, also no one from the medical staff encouraged the women to undergo mammogram) . Personal barriers were represented by (no need to get mammogram without any complication, lack of knowledge about doing mammogram yearly, fear of bad result of mammogram, fearing of the procedure).

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Crawler

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الرسائل العلمية

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رسائل ماجيستير

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العوامل المؤثرة في استفادة السيدات من خدمة التصوير الشعاعي للثدي _ الماموغارم ، في محافظة بيت لحم

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Factors Affecting Utilization of Mammogram Screening among Palestinian Women Aged40 years and above, in Bethlehem District.

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الإشراف

محمد شاهين

الإعداد

عصام عبد الرحمن عطية الحسنات

الاقتباسات الببليوغرافية