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Research - Abstract

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Samia Ghanem, Meriem Glaoui, Siham Elkhoyaali, Mohamed Mesmoudi, Saber Boutayeb, Hassan Errihani. Knowledge of risk factors, beliefs and practices of female healthcare professionals towards breast cancer, Morocco.
The Pan African Medical Journal. 2011;10:21

Key words: Breast cancer, knowledge risk factors, beliefs, breast self examination, mammogram, healthcare professionals

Permanent link: http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/10/21/full

Received: 30/05/2011 - Accepted: 30/09/2011 - Published: 13/10/2011

© Samia Ghanem et al.   The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Knowledge of risk factors, beliefs and practices of female healthcare professionals towards breast cancer, Morocco

 

Samia Ghanem1,&, Meriem Glaoui1, Siham Elkhoyaali1, Mohamed Mesmoudi1, Saber Boutayeb1, Hassan Errihani1

 

1Department of Medical Oncology, National Institute of Oncology of Rabat, Morocco

 

 

&Corresponding author
Samia Ghanem, Department of Medical Oncology, National Institute of Oncology of Rabat, Rabat, Morocco

 

 

Background

Breast cancer is the most common cancer affecting women in Morocco. Screening for early detection has led to reduction in mortality from the disease. It is known that female healthcare professionals have greater influence on women's positive perception of breast cancer and motivation to practice screening methods for early detection of the disease. This study aims to investigate knowledge of breast cancer risk factors, beliefs about treatment and practice of screening methods among a cohort of female healthcare professionals in Morocco.

 

 

Methods

A cross-sectional study was conducted using a self-administered questionnaire to assess the knowledge of breast cancer risk factors, beliefs about treatment and practice of screening methods among 136 female doctors and nurses working in the university hospital of Rabat, Morocco. Stratified random sampling method was employed. Chi square test, analysis of variance and Mantel-Haenszel test were performed in data analysis using SPSS v19.0.

 

 

Results

Female doctors were the only professional group that had satisfactory knowledge of risk factors while the nurses had an unsatisfactory knowledge with a mean score of 43%. A half of participants believed that that herbal therapy can cure breast cancer. 75% practice breast self-examination once a month and only 15% have ever had a mammogram. Age, profession and beliefs were not significantly associated with rate of BSE in this study; however this rate is influenced by knowledge of breast cancer risk factors.

 

 

Conclusion

Results from this study suggest the need for continuing medical education programs aimed at improving knowledge of breast cancer among the nurses.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  
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