. 2010 Mar 18;44(1):52–56. doi: 10.2478/v10019-010-0009-9

TABLE 1.

The attitudes of midwifery students (Faculty of Health Sciences, Ljubljana, Slovenia, academic year 2002/2003) towards teaching BSE, receiving additional BSE education and breast towards BC detection and treatment in the future

		1. year (n = 28)	3. year (n = 25)	Chi-square	p-value
Teaching BSE helps early BC detection	Yes	28 (100%)	25 (100%)	/	/
Teaching BSE helps early BC detection	No	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	/	/
Teaching BSE should be one of midwives’ duties	Yes	28 (100%)	25 (100%)	/	/
Teaching BSE should be one of midwives’ duties	No	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	/	/
I am willing to receive further BSE education	Yes	26 (92.86%)	22 (88%)	0.362	0.5469
I am willing to receive further BSE education	No	2 (7.14%)	3 (12%)	0.362	0.5469
I favour practical demonstration of BSE	Yes	22 (78.56%)	16 (64%)	0.9327	0.3341
I favour practical demonstration of BSE	No	6 (21.44%)	9 (36%)	0.9327	0.3341
I am optimistic about BC detection and treatment in the future	Yes	24 (85.71%)	23 (92%)	0.5311	0.4664
	No	4 (14.29%)	2 (8%)	0.5311	0.4664

n = number; BSE = breast self-examination; BC = breast cancer