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Enfermería Actual de Costa Rica

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Abstract

ORTIZ ROMANI, Katherine Jenny; GONZALES PAREDES, María Celeste  and  ORTIZ ROMANI, Yonathan Josué. Predictors of breast self-examination practices in nursing students from a private university, Lima, Peru. Enfermería Actual de Costa Rica [online]. 2021, n.41, 47081. ISSN 1409-4568.  http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/revenf.v0i41.44466.

Aim:

The objective of this study was to analyze the predictors of breast self-examination practices of nursing students at the Catholic SedesSapientiae University, Lima, Peru, 2019.

Methods:

It was an observational, analytical and cross-sectional study. The target population were 92 university students of both sexes. In order to analyze this, the researchers passed an evaluation guide to measure the breast self-examination technique, a self-directed questionnaire to assess this technique’s knowledge, and a data sheet for the variable performance of breast self-examination, among other sociodemographic and academic training variables.

Results:

Part of the main results show that 65.22% of the students did not perform breast self-examinations, and the average of the technique was low with a range of 0 to 12 points (M=4.41). The results also evidenced that the predictors of the performance of the breast self-examination were the high level of knowledge of this technique (PR: 8.73; p=0.022), the age (PR: 1.04; p=0.021), and the training (PR: 2.42; p=0.005). The predictors of the technique were the knowledge about it (coefficient: 1.70; p=0.023) and the age (coefficient: 1.70; p=0.023).

Conclusion:

In conclusion, the majority of students did not carry out the practices on breast self-examination; likewise, the predictors of these practices are the knowledge about this technique, the age, and the training. Given these findings, educational, promotional, and preventive interventions should be provided to the students.

Keywords : Breast Self-Examination; Students, Nursing; Primary-Prevention..

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