Attitudes and practices of women regarding breast cancer prevention in the urban population

Quiñones-Tafur M.A.; Soto-Cáceres V.; Díaz-Vélez C. · Revista Venezolana de Oncologia (2020)

Resumen

OBJECTIVE: The breast cancer is one of the five most common cancers in the worldwide this is a public health problem in both Peru and in the Lambayeque region. The highest incidence rate and longer survival of this disease has brought us to the key point is the prevention and that the study of the frequency of modifiable risk factors and the early detection methods of our population. The study aims to describe the attitudes and practices about preventing women’s breast cancer in the urban Chiclayo. METHOD: This cross sectional study was conducted among in 181 women using a single stage cluster sampling. All the data were collected through an instrument through interviews that included questions on the sociodemographic data, the attitudes and the practices of the preventing breast cancer. RESULTS: The majority of the population was between 55 years and 59 years old. The attitudes and the practices were regular in our population. The half of the women were performed the clinical breast examination and the mammography respectively. The most common reason for not conducting the clinical examination does not have symptoms and for the mammography is that health personnel has never proposed them. CONCLUSION: In general the respondents of this study have regular attitude and practices of the prevention of the breast cancer, we recommended both media and health campaigns in institutions can be effective in raising the attitudes and the practices for the prevention of this disease.

Instituciones: Universidad de San Martín de Porres