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Breast awareness mobile apps for health education and promotion for breast cancer
BACKGROUND: Lack of knowledge, poor awareness, and attitude are barriers to breast cancer (BC) screening participation. The ubiquitous usage of mobile phones makes it a perfect platform for delivering interventions to increase knowledge and awareness in screening, a strategy for early identification...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9620858/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36324460 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.951641 |
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author | Yusuf, Azlina P. Iskandar, Yulita Hanum Ab Hadi, Imi Sairi Nasution, Arryana Lean Keng, Soon |
author_facet | Yusuf, Azlina P. Iskandar, Yulita Hanum Ab Hadi, Imi Sairi Nasution, Arryana Lean Keng, Soon |
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description | BACKGROUND: Lack of knowledge, poor awareness, and attitude are barriers to breast cancer (BC) screening participation. The ubiquitous usage of mobile phones makes it a perfect platform for delivering interventions to increase knowledge and awareness in screening, a strategy for early identification of BC. However, although numerous applications for BC prevention are available on major mobile phone platforms, relatively few have been tested in scientific studies to determine their efficacy. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to assess the efficacy of BrAware Apps in increasing the knowledge of BC risk factors, awareness of warning signs and confidence in breast self-examination (BSE) among women in northeast peninsular Malaysia. METHODS: A quasi-experimental pre and post-test research design were conducted with 41 women participants in Kelantan, Malaysia, before and after using the BrAware apps. Participants were given an online, adapted Breast Cancer Awareness Measure questionnaire. Post-test was 2 months after using the BrAware apps. Comparison using paired T-tests were conducted to evaluate the change in knowledge of risk factors, warning signs awareness and confidence level for BSE. RESULTS: The mean age of women was 39.71(SD = 8.80). The participants' mean knowledge score of BC warning signs differs before using BrAware (mean 70.62, SD 11.74) and after using the BrAware app (mean 79.83, SD 10.15) at the <0.001 level of significance. CONCLUSIONS: The BrAware mobile app had a positive effect in increasing the women's knowledge of risk factors of BC, warning signs awareness and confidence level for BSE. It can be concluded that the mobile app may be an adjunct in educating women on BC. |
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spelling | pubmed-96208582022-11-01 Breast awareness mobile apps for health education and promotion for breast cancer Yusuf, Azlina P. Iskandar, Yulita Hanum Ab Hadi, Imi Sairi Nasution, Arryana Lean Keng, Soon Front Public Health Public Health BACKGROUND: Lack of knowledge, poor awareness, and attitude are barriers to breast cancer (BC) screening participation. The ubiquitous usage of mobile phones makes it a perfect platform for delivering interventions to increase knowledge and awareness in screening, a strategy for early identification of BC. However, although numerous applications for BC prevention are available on major mobile phone platforms, relatively few have been tested in scientific studies to determine their efficacy. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to assess the efficacy of BrAware Apps in increasing the knowledge of BC risk factors, awareness of warning signs and confidence in breast self-examination (BSE) among women in northeast peninsular Malaysia. METHODS: A quasi-experimental pre and post-test research design were conducted with 41 women participants in Kelantan, Malaysia, before and after using the BrAware apps. Participants were given an online, adapted Breast Cancer Awareness Measure questionnaire. Post-test was 2 months after using the BrAware apps. Comparison using paired T-tests were conducted to evaluate the change in knowledge of risk factors, warning signs awareness and confidence level for BSE. RESULTS: The mean age of women was 39.71(SD = 8.80). The participants' mean knowledge score of BC warning signs differs before using BrAware (mean 70.62, SD 11.74) and after using the BrAware app (mean 79.83, SD 10.15) at the <0.001 level of significance. CONCLUSIONS: The BrAware mobile app had a positive effect in increasing the women's knowledge of risk factors of BC, warning signs awareness and confidence level for BSE. It can be concluded that the mobile app may be an adjunct in educating women on BC. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-10-05 /pmc/articles/PMC9620858/ /pubmed/36324460 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.951641 Text en Copyright © 2022 Yusuf, P. Iskandar, Ab Hadi, Nasution and Lean Keng. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Public Health Yusuf, Azlina P. Iskandar, Yulita Hanum Ab Hadi, Imi Sairi Nasution, Arryana Lean Keng, Soon Breast awareness mobile apps for health education and promotion for breast cancer |
title | Breast awareness mobile apps for health education and promotion for breast cancer |
title_full | Breast awareness mobile apps for health education and promotion for breast cancer |
title_fullStr | Breast awareness mobile apps for health education and promotion for breast cancer |
title_full_unstemmed | Breast awareness mobile apps for health education and promotion for breast cancer |
title_short | Breast awareness mobile apps for health education and promotion for breast cancer |
title_sort | breast awareness mobile apps for health education and promotion for breast cancer |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9620858/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36324460 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.951641 |
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