A Study on Factors Related to Women's Frequency of Breast Self-Examination in the Taipei Area
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中華民國公共衛生學會雜誌, v.10 n.5 p.248-259
Journal
中華民國公共衛生學會雜誌
Journal Volume
v.10 n.5 p.248-259
Pages
-
Date Issued
1991
Date
1991
Author(s)
Yen, Lee-Lan
Chie, Wei-Chu
Lin, Ruey-Shiung
Abstract
A questionnaire interview was conducted on a sample of 3,040 women aged 30-59 years in the Taipei area through multistage sampling with probability proportional to size. Excluding mistakes in household registration, there were 2,311 qualified subjects, 1, 749 of whom (75.5%) completed the interview. The study framework was set up according to Green's PRECEDE model. In the result of this study only 8.4% of the subjects performed breast self-examination monthly. The most remarkable associative factor for the score of the frequency of breast self-examination was "source of instruction", a variable of "enabling factors"; other variables with strong associations were "television contact" and "newspaper contact", which also belong to the enabling factors. Only one demographic factor-the family structure was found significantly related to the dependent variable. Other demographic characteristics such as "educational level" and "urbanizational level" were only indirectly related. The authors suggested using all possible routes of health education, such as mass media, hospitals and clinics, as well as workplaces to educate and encourage women to do breast self-examination monthly in correct techniques in order to early detect and treat breast cancer.
Subjects
乳房自我檢查
Breast self-examination
Type
journal article
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