An investigation of the relationship between female university students' breast cancer risk factors and their health beliefs about breast self-examination
Zehra Golbasi, Birnur Yeşildağ, Nermin Altunbaş · 2023
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Zehra Golbasi, Birnur Yeşildağ, and Nermin Altunbaş relate breast cancer risk to students' beliefs about self-examination. Their 2023 study surveys female university students in Turkey. Beliefs drive whether young women check their breasts at all. Risk factors alone do not tell that story.
Three hundred eighty-nine students were picked by layered sampling. Forms captured risk factors and health belief scores. Students who felt more at risk also felt more susceptible and more severe about the disease. They saw more benefit in self-exams and felt more able to do them. Barriers, though, scored lower as felt risk rose. Many carried real risk factors while rating their own risk low. Education must close that perception gap.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Zehra Golbasi, Birnur Yeşildağ, Nermin Altunbaş |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 26 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |