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Factors associated with awareness of breast cancer among women of reproductive age in Lesotho: a national population-based cross-sectional survey

BACKGROUND: Breast cancer is a leading cause of cancer mortality and a major public health problem. The growing number of breast cancer-related deaths has been largely attributed to a lack of awareness of the disease among women. Whilst there have been frequent campaigns promoting breast cancer awar...

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Autores principales: Afaya, Agani, Japiong, Milipaak, Konlan, Kennedy Diema, Salia, Solomon Mohammed
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10067163/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37004021
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-15443-y
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author Afaya, Agani
Japiong, Milipaak
Konlan, Kennedy Diema
Salia, Solomon Mohammed
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Salia, Solomon Mohammed
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description BACKGROUND: Breast cancer is a leading cause of cancer mortality and a major public health problem. The growing number of breast cancer-related deaths has been largely attributed to a lack of awareness of the disease among women. Whilst there have been frequent campaigns promoting breast cancer awareness, evidence suggests that women still lack awareness. Therefore, this study assessed the prevalence and factors associated with the awareness of breast cancer among women of reproductive age in Lesotho. METHODS: We used population-based cross-sectional data from the 2014 Lesotho Demographic and Health survey. A total of 6,620 women of reproductive age were included in the analysis. The outcome variable was awareness of breast cancer. Women who heard about breast cancer were considered to be aware of the disease. Multilevel binary logistic regression models were fitted to determine the factors associated with breast cancer awareness among women. RESULTS: The level of awareness of breast cancer was 86.8% (95% CI: 85.5, 87.9). Women aged 45–49 years [adjusted odds ratio (AOR) = 2.87, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.83, 4.48], married women [AOR = 1.51 (95% CI: 1.19, 1.93)], and women with higher educational level [AOR = 12.56, (95% CI: 4.35, 36.28)] were more likely to be aware of breast cancer. Additionally, women who listened to the radio at least once a week [AOR = 1.96, (95% CI: 1.63, 2.37)], those who read newspapers or magazines [AOR = 1.91 (95% CI: 1.48, 2.46)] and women in the wealthiest group [AOR = 2.55, (95% CI: 1.67, 3.89)] had higher odds of breast cancer awareness. However, women who were in rural areas were less likely [AOR = 0.63, (95% CI: 0.47, 0.84)] to be aware of breast cancer than those in urban areas. CONCLUSION: The level of awareness of breast cancer among women of reproductive age in Lesotho was extremely low. We recommend that policymakers, clinicians, and public health practitioners should consider the factors identified in this study when designing and developing intervention programs to improve the awareness of breast cancer among women in Lesotho.
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spelling pubmed-100671632023-04-03 Factors associated with awareness of breast cancer among women of reproductive age in Lesotho: a national population-based cross-sectional survey Afaya, Agani Japiong, Milipaak Konlan, Kennedy Diema Salia, Solomon Mohammed BMC Public Health Research BACKGROUND: Breast cancer is a leading cause of cancer mortality and a major public health problem. The growing number of breast cancer-related deaths has been largely attributed to a lack of awareness of the disease among women. Whilst there have been frequent campaigns promoting breast cancer awareness, evidence suggests that women still lack awareness. Therefore, this study assessed the prevalence and factors associated with the awareness of breast cancer among women of reproductive age in Lesotho. METHODS: We used population-based cross-sectional data from the 2014 Lesotho Demographic and Health survey. A total of 6,620 women of reproductive age were included in the analysis. The outcome variable was awareness of breast cancer. Women who heard about breast cancer were considered to be aware of the disease. Multilevel binary logistic regression models were fitted to determine the factors associated with breast cancer awareness among women. RESULTS: The level of awareness of breast cancer was 86.8% (95% CI: 85.5, 87.9). Women aged 45–49 years [adjusted odds ratio (AOR) = 2.87, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.83, 4.48], married women [AOR = 1.51 (95% CI: 1.19, 1.93)], and women with higher educational level [AOR = 12.56, (95% CI: 4.35, 36.28)] were more likely to be aware of breast cancer. Additionally, women who listened to the radio at least once a week [AOR = 1.96, (95% CI: 1.63, 2.37)], those who read newspapers or magazines [AOR = 1.91 (95% CI: 1.48, 2.46)] and women in the wealthiest group [AOR = 2.55, (95% CI: 1.67, 3.89)] had higher odds of breast cancer awareness. However, women who were in rural areas were less likely [AOR = 0.63, (95% CI: 0.47, 0.84)] to be aware of breast cancer than those in urban areas. CONCLUSION: The level of awareness of breast cancer among women of reproductive age in Lesotho was extremely low. We recommend that policymakers, clinicians, and public health practitioners should consider the factors identified in this study when designing and developing intervention programs to improve the awareness of breast cancer among women in Lesotho. BioMed Central 2023-03-31 /pmc/articles/PMC10067163/ /pubmed/37004021 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-15443-y Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Konlan, Kennedy Diema
Salia, Solomon Mohammed
Factors associated with awareness of breast cancer among women of reproductive age in Lesotho: a national population-based cross-sectional survey
title Factors associated with awareness of breast cancer among women of reproductive age in Lesotho: a national population-based cross-sectional survey
title_full Factors associated with awareness of breast cancer among women of reproductive age in Lesotho: a national population-based cross-sectional survey
title_fullStr Factors associated with awareness of breast cancer among women of reproductive age in Lesotho: a national population-based cross-sectional survey
title_full_unstemmed Factors associated with awareness of breast cancer among women of reproductive age in Lesotho: a national population-based cross-sectional survey
title_short Factors associated with awareness of breast cancer among women of reproductive age in Lesotho: a national population-based cross-sectional survey
title_sort factors associated with awareness of breast cancer among women of reproductive age in lesotho: a national population-based cross-sectional survey
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10067163/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37004021
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-15443-y
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