Breast Cancer: Knowledge, Attitudes on Risk Factors and Means of Screening by Medical Students from Lomé, Togo
Breast Cancer: Knowledge, Attitudes on Risk Factors and Means of Screening by Medical Students from Lomé, Togo作者机构：Department of Pathology University Teaching Hospital of Lomé Lomé Togo Department of Radiology University Teaching Hospital of Lomé Lomé Togo Department of Pathology University Teaching Hospital of Parakou Parakou Bénin Department of Health and Epidemiology University of Lomé Lomé Togo
出 版 物：《Advances in Breast Cancer Research》 (乳腺癌（英文）)
年 卷 期：2020年第9卷第4期
页 面：127-137页
学科分类：1002[医学-临床医学] 100214[医学-肿瘤学] 10[医学]
主 题：Breast Cancer Screening Knowledge Medical Students Togo
摘 要：Background: Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death in women around the world. The objective of this study was to assess knowledge and attitudes about breast cancer screening among students in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Lomé. Methods: This was a prospective descriptive transversal study conducted among students enrolled in the Faculty of Health Sciences (FSS) of the University of Lomé (UL) in the 2019 school year account 2020. The purpose of this study was to assess the knowledge and attitudes of medical students about breast cancer screening. Results: In total, the questionnaire was completed by 934 students, for a response rate of 57.1%. The most frequently mentioned risk factors were the presence of a family history of breast cancer (n = 799, 85.55%) and the use of oral or injectable contraceptives (n = 606, 64.88%). There is a statistically significant link between the participants’ knowledge of the self-examination and clinical examination of the breasts and certain socio-demographic characteristics, namely age (OR = 0.2, 95% CI [0.11-0.75], p-value 0.0001), the level of study (OR = 1.5, 95% CI [0.55-2.46], p-value = 0.0054), the follow-up of a course on breast cancer (OR = 2.63, 95% CI [0.32span style=font-family
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