Assessment of Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Breast Cancer among Woman of Reproductive Age, Khartoum State, Sudan

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الملخص

Breast cancer is a major cause of morbidity and mortality as it is the most common cancer in women worldwide. In Sudan is the most commonly diagnosed type of cancer. Approximately 836 women developed breast cancer in the year 2007 and 895 in the year 2008, this is accounting for more than (30%) of all cancers in women in Sudan, so that this study was conducted in West Suba area, Khartoum state, Sudan within the year 2012. The aims of the study were to assess the knowledge, attitudes and practices in relation to health among the women of reproductive age, and to evaluate the health care services provided for breast cancer awareness. The tools used in the study were a questionnaire, and SPSS-soft ware for data analysis. The study covered one hospital and five PHC centers in the area, and 300 women of reproductive age. The result obtained in this study was low levels of awareness and knowledge among respondents on breast cancer (60.7%), knowledge on BSE (61.7%), because lack of health education programs provided through PHC centers (8%), and low of practice of BSE (65.2%), the main reason of non-practice was they were did not know how to conduct (9.3%), but the study showed the high level of awareness if they found problems in the breast by direct review of specialist doctors (88%) and reasons of not review the doctors was the beliefs (43.2%), the study also showed lack of knowledge on the other tools used in the early detection of breast cancer (77%), the reasons that the respondents did not conducted mammography was the lack of exam centers (35%) and beliefs (33%). The most important recommendations of the study was stressing on the health education of women, inclusion of the breast cancer awareness programmes within the curriculum, activating the role of PHC centers, mass media and educational institutes, increasing PHC centers and mobile examination centers and using a larger sample size with women in rural and urban areas, including the cost-effectiveness of designing and implementing preventive care.

روابط وملفات

التعريف والنوع

رقم الوثيقة

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رقم العقد

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نوع الوسائط

Crawler

نوع المحتوى

الرسائل العلمية

صيغة المصدر

رسائل ماجيستير

نوع الملف

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أسماء الملفات

72182_1.pdf

بيانات النشر

ترجمة العنوان

تقييم المعرفة والسلوك والممارسات بين النساء في سن الإنجاب تجاه الكشف المبكر لمرض سرطان الثدي في مراكز الرعاية الصحية الولية بمنطقة سوبا غرب - محلية الخرطوم شرق - ولاية الخرطوم - السودان

ألقاب المؤلفين

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اللغة

English

المصدر والدورية

اسم المصدر

Assessment of Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Breast Cancer among Woman of Reproductive Age, Khartoum State, Sudan

المحتوى والصفحات

عدد الصفحات

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إشراف وإعداد

الإشراف

عبدالله محمد الحسن, ناصر أحمد علي محمد

الإعداد

سهى عبد المجيد عبد الجليل عثمان

الاقتباسات الببليوغرافية