Knowledge, Attitude and Practice in Female Primary Health Care Physician About Breast Cancer Screening in Makkah City
Journal Title: International Journal of Medical Research Professionals - Year 2017, Vol 3, Issue 5
Abstract
Background: Breast cancer is major impact on health of women in worldwide with no exception in Saudi Arabia. Significant improvement in breast cancer survival was observed in Western countries over the last 20 years, and the reason being early detection through screening and prompt treatment. Objectives: To assess Knowledge, attitude and practice of breast cancer screening recommendation among female primary health care physicians in Makkah. Subjects and Methods: A cross sectional analytic study design was adopted. It included all female physicians in primary health care centers (n=30) primary health care centers, Makkah who are currently working at the time of study conduction. Self-administered questionnaire was utilized for data collection. It consists of two parts; demographic characteristics of physicians and the second part was adopted from national cancer institute (breast and cervical cancer screening questionnaire) to measure the awareness of physicians regarding breast cancer screening recommendations. Results: Out of 89 female primary health care physicians recruited for the study, 62 (69.7%) returned a completed questionnaire. Those aged between 31 and 35 years represent 45.2% of the participants whereas those aged between 25 and 30 years represent 38.7% of them. Most of them were residents (71%). The overall knowledge of female primary health care physicians regarding BC screening recommendations was sufficient among only 16.1% of them. Specialist physicians had better knowledge compared to resident physicians (33.3% versus 9.1%). The difference was statistically significant, p = 0.028. Physicians who had small number of patients seen in a typical week (≤50) and those having an average number (76-100) reported higher significant knowledge than those have seen a high number of patients (>100), p=0.021. Most of them (79% and 80.6%) reported that mammography is very effective in reducing mortality in average risk women aged 40-49 and 50 and over years, respectively. Almost two-thirds of the physicians (66.1%) refereed from one to 10 patients for screening mammography during a typical month whereas 27.4% of them did not refer any case for screening mammography. Conclusion: Overall knowledge of female primary health care physicians in Makkah regarding BC screening recommendations was mostly insufficient. On the other hand, their attitude and practice regarding breast cancer screening were satisfactory.
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Abeer Juwaybir Althubaiti
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- DOI 10.21276/ijmrp.2017.3.5.055
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