Vocational school students’ beliefs and attitudes towards breast cancer

Year 2020, Volume: 6 Issue: 1, 111 - 117, 23.04.2020

Canan Kaş , Kamile Kırca

https://doi.org/10.30569/adiyamansaglik.677985

Abstract

Aim: The aim of this study was to determine vocational school students’ beliefs and attitudes towards breast cancer.

Materials and Methods: The descriptive study was conducted with 255 female students at Kastamonu University Taşköprü Vocational School in the 2018-2019 Academic Year. Data were collected using a “Descriptive Characteristics Form” and Champion’s Health Belief Model Scale" for breast cancer screening.

Results: The mean age of participants was 19.74±18.4 years and 48.6% were medical documentation and secretarial students. Participants’ CHBMS subscale scores showed that they had high perceptions of benefits of breast self-examination, low perceptions of seriousness, barriers to performing breast self-examination and health motivation. Participants who performed breast self-examination had higher perceptions of benefits of breast self-examination and confidence/self-efficacy and lower perceptions of barriers to performing breast self-examination than those who had never performed breast self-examination before (p<0.01).

Conclusion: Training on health promoting behaviors should be added to curricula.

Keywords

Belief, Breast cancer, Student, Attitudes

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Thanks

We would like to thank all participating students who took the time to complete the questionnaires and made this study possible.

Meslek yüksekokulu öğrencilerinin meme kanserine ilişkin inanç ve tutumları

Abstract

Amaç: Bu çalışma, meslek yüksekokulu öğrencilerinin meme kanserine ilişkin inanç ve tutumlarının belirlenmesi amacıyla yapılmıştır.

Gereç ve Yöntem: Bu çalışma, 2018-2019 Akademik yılında Kastamonu Üniversitesi Taşköprü Meslek Yüksekokulunda öğrenim gören kız öğrencilerle (N:255) tanımlayıcı tipte yapılmıştır. Verilerin toplanmasında “Tanıtıcı Özellikler Formu” ve “Champion’un Meme Kanseri ve Taramalarına İlişkin Sağlık İnanç Modeli Ölçeği” kullanılmıştır.

Bulgular: Çalışma kapsamındaki öğrencilerin yaş ortalaması 19,74±18,4 ve %48,6’sı Tıbbi Dökümantasyon ve Sekreterlik bölümündedir. Öğrencilerin sağlık inanç ölçeği alt boyutlarından aldıkları puanlar incelendiğinde; yarar algılarının yüksek, duyarlılık, ciddiyet/önemseme, engel ve sağlık motivasyonu algılarının düşük olduğu belirlenmiştir. Kendi kendine meme muayenesi yapan öğrencilerin kendi kendine meme muayenesi yapmayan öğrencilere göre yarar ve güven/öz etkililik algıları yüksek, engel algıları düşüktür (p<0,01).

Sonuç: Öğrencilere yönelik müfredat programlarına sağlığı koruma davranışlarına ilişkin eğitimlerin eklenmesi önerilebilir

Keywords

İnanç, Meme kanseri, Öğrenci, Tutum

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