Women's evaluation of breast self-examination application

Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer in women in many countries and is the cause of death. Breast self-examinations done regularly every month, breast cancer is an effective diagnostic method. For early diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer, breast self-examination is simple, can be applied by anyone, does not require special tools, people taking ten minutes a month is a method of early diagnosis. Research has been made in the Family Health Center between September 16 and December 16, 2013. Sampling over the age of 18 and agree with voluntary work and research that meets the criteria of 285 women were included. Discussed with patients face to face, are permitted with consent form identifying information form filled out and Champion's health belief model scale data was collected. 41.4% of the women who participated in the study, are between 20-29 years old, 60% are married and 7.7% has breast cancer history in her family. The rate of women who have information about breast self-examination is 61.05% and the rate of women who have stated that they had learned about the breast self-examination from near abroad is 20.7%. While Almost all women (91.5%) believe the necessity of doing of breast self-examination, 43,5% of them does not do breast examination and23.1% of them stated that the reason for not doing self examination is that they don't know how to do it. It is found out that health beliefs devoted to scanning attitudes which are obtained by using Breast Cancer Health Belief Modelchanges between average subdimensional score of 8.0 points (± 2.26) and 31.52 points (± 7.14). As a result of the research, women don't have enough consciousness about breast cancer and its methods of early diagnosis It has been determined that with education and training these deficiencies can be eliminated.