Journal of Women's Health Care
Open Access

Abstract

Assessments of the Prevalence and Associated Factors Breast Self Examination among Female Students in Wollo University, North East Ethiopia, 2021

Nigusie Abebaw*, Kibir Temesgen and Amare Worke

Background: Breast self-examination is one of the cheapest breast cancer screening tools. This is important to initiate early breast cancer detection by them. Purpose: To assess prevalence and associated factors of breast self-examination among regular female students in Wollo University, Ethiopia, 2021

Methods: Cross-sectional study was conducted among 630 female students in Wollo University from Mar 16 to April 16, 2021 by using simple random sampling technique. Epi-Data version 4.6 were used to enter the data and exported to SPSS version 25 for analyses. Binary and multiple logistic regressions were used to associate between dependent and independent variables

Results: 610 (96.8%) participants were participated during study period. This study showed that [16.4% (95% CI, 14.9-17.9)] were applied breast self-examination. This finding revealed that family history of breast cancer [AOR= 28.4; 95%CI (13.04-61.86), knowledge about breast self-examination [AOR=6.08; 95%CI (3.26-11.34) and attitude towards BSE [AOR=4.19; 95%CI (1.97- 8.92)] were significantly associated with Breast self-examination.

Conclusion: The prevalence of Breast self-examination among female students in Wollo University was 16.4%. Therefore, this finding suggests that early diagnosis of breast cancer by promote the level of attitude and knowledge regarding to breast self-examination.

Published Date: 2022-11-26; Received Date: 2022-10-31