Knowledge of Breast Cancer, Practice of Breast Self-Examination and Associated Factors Among Rural Reproductive Age Women of Dire Wareda, Borena Zone, Ethiopia

Tesfaye Abebe Diriba, Siraj Gebi Wako, Tadesse Nigussie, Mukamil Awol, Rabbira Edessa Geleta and Zelalem Jabessa Wayessa

SAGE Open, 2025, vol. 15, issue 3, 21582440251346554

Abstract: Breast cancer is now a worldwide problem, yet it is still detected in its advanced stages. Breast self-examination is an easy and cost effective method which is helpful in early detection of breast cancer that everyone can practice. This study was aims to assess the knowledge of breast cancer, practice of breast self-examination and associated factors among reproductive age women. A community based cross-sectional study with a convergent qualitative study design was conducted among 624 women of reproductive age of Dire Wareda, Borana zone, Ethiopia. Multistage sampling technique for quantitative and purposive sampling for qualitative part was used to select the study participants. Interviewer administered questionnaires for quantitative study and semi-structured questionnaires for qualitative study were used to collect data. For analysis, quantitative data was exported to SPSS version 25. In bivariate logistic regressions analysis, variables having p -value 

Keywords: breast cancer; qualitative and quantitative; breast self-examination; Dire Borana; Ethiopia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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