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Breast self-examination, mammography and Pap test among Turkish women: Role of healthcare professionals in Sivas

INTRODUCTION: The aim of the present study is to determine how often women perform breast self-examination (BSE) and undergo mammography and Pap test, and how healthcare professionals affect them to do so. METHODS: This descriptive study was carried out with 1025 women, aged 20–82 years and living i...

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Autores principales: Yurtsal, Z. Burcu, Bekar, Mine, Güler, Handan, Çetin, Perihan, Cesur, Büşra
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: European Publishing 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7839102/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33537633
http://dx.doi.org/10.18332/ejm/124112
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author Yurtsal, Z. Burcu
Bekar, Mine
Güler, Handan
Çetin, Perihan
Cesur, Büşra
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description INTRODUCTION: The aim of the present study is to determine how often women perform breast self-examination (BSE) and undergo mammography and Pap test, and how healthcare professionals affect them to do so. METHODS: This descriptive study was carried out with 1025 women, aged 20–82 years and living in the central district of Sivas, who presented to the Gynecology and Obstetrics Outpatient Clinics of Hospitals between January and December 2010, and who volunteered to participate in the study and gave their verbal agreement to the researchers. RESULTS: Out of the participants, 46.9% lacked mammogram knowledge, 13.2% received advice from healthcare professionals, and 20.1% thought that they were healthy and thus did not need mammography. Out of the participants, 45.9% lacked knowledge about the Pap test, 11.8% received advice from healthcare professionals, and 18.9% thought that they were healthy and thus did not need a ‘Pap test’. CONCLUSIONS: While one-fourth of the participants stated that they performed BSE and underwent mammography at least once, more than half reported that they did not have a Pap test. In preventive healthcare services, periodic health examinations and screenings for the most common types of women cancers should be increased; midwives should give education and counseling, and the importance of practices aimed at raising social awareness should be emphasized.
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spelling pubmed-78391022021-02-02 Breast self-examination, mammography and Pap test among Turkish women: Role of healthcare professionals in Sivas Yurtsal, Z. Burcu Bekar, Mine Güler, Handan Çetin, Perihan Cesur, Büşra Eur J Midwifery Short Report INTRODUCTION: The aim of the present study is to determine how often women perform breast self-examination (BSE) and undergo mammography and Pap test, and how healthcare professionals affect them to do so. METHODS: This descriptive study was carried out with 1025 women, aged 20–82 years and living in the central district of Sivas, who presented to the Gynecology and Obstetrics Outpatient Clinics of Hospitals between January and December 2010, and who volunteered to participate in the study and gave their verbal agreement to the researchers. RESULTS: Out of the participants, 46.9% lacked mammogram knowledge, 13.2% received advice from healthcare professionals, and 20.1% thought that they were healthy and thus did not need mammography. Out of the participants, 45.9% lacked knowledge about the Pap test, 11.8% received advice from healthcare professionals, and 18.9% thought that they were healthy and thus did not need a ‘Pap test’. CONCLUSIONS: While one-fourth of the participants stated that they performed BSE and underwent mammography at least once, more than half reported that they did not have a Pap test. In preventive healthcare services, periodic health examinations and screenings for the most common types of women cancers should be increased; midwives should give education and counseling, and the importance of practices aimed at raising social awareness should be emphasized. European Publishing 2020-08-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7839102/ /pubmed/33537633 http://dx.doi.org/10.18332/ejm/124112 Text en © 2020 Yurtsal Z. B. et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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Bekar, Mine
Güler, Handan
Çetin, Perihan
Cesur, Büşra
Breast self-examination, mammography and Pap test among Turkish women: Role of healthcare professionals in Sivas
title Breast self-examination, mammography and Pap test among Turkish women: Role of healthcare professionals in Sivas
title_full Breast self-examination, mammography and Pap test among Turkish women: Role of healthcare professionals in Sivas
title_fullStr Breast self-examination, mammography and Pap test among Turkish women: Role of healthcare professionals in Sivas
title_full_unstemmed Breast self-examination, mammography and Pap test among Turkish women: Role of healthcare professionals in Sivas
title_short Breast self-examination, mammography and Pap test among Turkish women: Role of healthcare professionals in Sivas
title_sort breast self-examination, mammography and pap test among turkish women: role of healthcare professionals in sivas
topic Short Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7839102/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33537633
http://dx.doi.org/10.18332/ejm/124112
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