Women's Health Nursing (여성건강간호학회지)
- Volume 10 Issue 2
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- Pages.150-161
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- 2004
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- 3022-7666(pISSN)
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- 3022-8247(eISSN)
Related Factors to Screening or Repeat Screening for Cervical and Breast Cancer among Women
자궁경부암과 유방암 선별검사 수검 및 반복수검 관련요인 조사
- Jeong, Ihn-Sook (Department of Nursing, College of Medicine, Pusan National University) ;
- Ju, Hyeon-Ok (Department of Nursing, College of Medicine, Pusan National University) ;
- Bae, Eun-Sook (Public Health Center of Suyoung Gu, Busan Metropolitan City)
- Published : 2004.06.20
Abstract
The importance of screening or repeat screening for cervical and breast cancer is well known to decrease the chance of death from cancer. Few data is avaliable regarding factors associated with participation in cervical and breast cancer screening and repeat screening examinations. This study was to investigate the associations of demographic factors, health status and cancer risk recognition, attitude to cancer screening, health behaviors, and inhibiting or facilitating factors to cervical and breast cancer screening with participation in the screening tests. Data was collected with self-administrated questionnaires from 342 women, aged 40 to 69 years. The cancer screenings were classified into have had or never groups and repeat or not repeated groups. In the case of cervical and breast cancer screening, the have had group was 90 (26.3%), and 82 (24.0%) and the repeat group was 17 (5.0%), and 13 (3.8%) respectively. According to logistic regression analysis, age (<60 vs