EFFECT OF A PREVENTIVE BREAST CANCER GUIDELINE ON ATTITUDE OF HEALTHY WOMEN WITH FAMILY HISTORY

作者：R. Elbasuony, Eman A. Fadel, A. El-nemer · 发表于：Mansoura Nursing Journal · 年份：2021 · DOI：10.21608/mnj.2021.179805 · 被引用次数：1 · 研究领域：Medicine

Background: Worldwide, incidence of breast cancer is rapidly rising. Cancerprevention strategies can provide appropriate and cost-effective opportunities to reducecancer mortality in the next decades. Aim: Assess the effect of a preventive breast cancerguideline on attitude of healthy women with family history. Study design: A quasiexperimentalresearch design using pre-post one arm intervention study. Study Subjects: Apurposive sample of fifty healthy women with family history of breast cancer attending theOncology Center in Mansoura University Hospitals, Mansoura city, DakahliaGovernorate, Egypt. Tools of data collection: Three tools were used for data collection.The first was a Structured Interview Questionnaire to assess the woman's generalcharacteristics, reproductive history and assessing risk factors, the second was AttitudeQuestionnaire regarding breast cancer; the third was Follow-up Card to check theparticipants’ attendance. Results: The study findings revealed statistically significantimprovement in the healthy women's attitude regarding BC prevention after implementingof the preventive guideline than before. Conclusion: The study hypothesis was acceptedwhich indicated that the preventive cancer guideline was an effective tool to improve thehealthy women's attitude regarding BC. Recommendation: Applying further nursingprograms to improve women's attitude regarding prevention of breast cancer especially forthe high-risk group.