Determination of breast cancer risk in type 2 diabetic women and assessing of training for self-breast examination

Object: In this study it's aimed to assess of efficiency of training for self-examination by determining of breast cancer risk on women with type 2 diabetes. Materials and Method: This study is consisted from women aged in 25-65 years old who are diagnosed of type 2 diabetes (n=130) in hospitalized patient services of Internal Medicine and Endocrinology Clinic in Manisa State Hospital and Manisa Merkez Efendi State Hospital between 15th of April–30th of August 2016. "Survey Form for Socio-demographical Aspects of Women and Breast Cancer Risk", "Information and Practice Form for SBE" and "Health Belief Model Scale" are used for data collecting process. Frequency, percentage distribution, Mc Nemar in dependent groups, independent Samples t and One-Way ANOVA tests were used in SPSS 15.0 for Windows statistical analyze program for analyzing of data. Findings: Average age of women participated to study is 50±10 (min: 26, max: 65); 75,4 % of them are married; 52,4 % of them are graduated from elementary school. 88,5 % of women with type 2 diabetes are in lower risk group for breast cancer. Health belief of participants is assessed before training for SBE; obstacle perception to breast health and to SBE is decreased and their health belief is developed and increased after training. Result: Lower breast cancer risk is detected on women with type 2 diabetes. After SBE training it's determined that perception for sensibility on health belief, severity, benefit, confident and health motivation are increased; perception of obstacle is decreased. Frequency of application of SBE of Women is significantly increased after given training.