Journal of Women's Health Care
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Department of Medicine and health Science, Wollo University, Dessie, Ethiopia

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• Research Article   
  Assessments of the Prevalence and Associated Factors Breast Self Examination among Female Students in Wollo University, North East Ethiopia, 2021
  Author(s): 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-exami.. View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2167-0420.22.11.610

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