Table 1.
Relationships between demographic variables and breast self-examination (BSE) performance (n=501)
| Variables | Total | BSE performance |
p-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes (n = 321) | No (n = 180) | |||
| Age (y) | 0.453 | |||
| <40 | 337 (67.3) | 217 (64.4) | 120 (35.6) | |
| ≥40 | 164 (32.7) | 104 (63.4) | 60 (36.6) | |
| Marital status | 0.004 | |||
| Married | 403 (80.4) | 270 (67.0) | 133 (33.0) | |
| Single | 98 (19.6) | 51 (52.0) | 47 (48.0) | |
| Educational status | 0.024 | |||
| Diploma | 35 (7.0) | 16 (45.7) | 19 (54.3) | |
| Technician | 37 (7.4) | 24 (64.9) | 13 (35.1) | |
| Bachelor | 338 (67.5) | 219 (64.8) | 119 (35.2) | |
| Master | 74 (14.8) | 48 (64.9) | 26 (35.1) | |
| Doctor | 17(3.4) | 14 (82.4) | 3 (17.6) | |
| No. of children | 0.441 | |||
| None | 80 (19.5) | 51 (63.0) | 29 (37.0) | |
| 1-2 | 308 (76.8) | 212 (68.8) | 96 (31.2) | |
| ≥3 | 15 (3.7) | 9 (60.0) | 6 (40.0) | |
| History of breast disease | 0.006 | |||
| Yes | 44 (8.8) | 36 (81.8) | 8 (18.2) | |
| No | 457 (91.2) | 285 (62.4) | 172 (37.6) | |
| Family history of breast cancer | 0.277 | |||
| Yes | 63 (12.6) | 43 (68.3) | 20 (31.7) | |
| No | 438 (87.4) | 278 (63.5) | 160 (36.5) | |
| Menopause | 0.260 | |||
| Yes | 46 (9.2) | 27 (58.7) | 19 (41.3) | |
| No | 455 (90.8) | 294 (64.6) | 161 (35.4) | |
| Workplace | 0.013 | |||
| Health unit | 85 (17.0) | 62 (72.9) | 23 (27.1) | |
| Therapeutic unit | 308 (61.5) | 200 (64.9) | 108 (35.1) | |
| Educational unit | 58 (11.6) | 31 (53.4) | 27 (46.6) | |
| Head office | 50 (10.0) | 28 (56.0) | 22 (44.0) | |
| Hormone therapy | 0.068 | |||
| Yes | 6 (1.2) | 6 (100) | 0 (0.0) | |
| No | 495 (98.8) | 315 (63.6) | 180 (36.4) | |
| Having seen a patient with breast cancer | 0.001 | |||
| Yes | 202 (40.3) | 146 (72.3) | 56 (27.7) | |
| No | 299 (59.7) | 175 (58.5) | 124 (41.5) | |
Values are presented as number (%).