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- Title
Effectiveness of Nursing Intervention for Early Detection of Breast Cancer among Working Women at Baghdad City.
- Authors
Abbas, Iqbal Majeed; Ali, Rabe'a Mohsen; Mohammed, Widad K.; Jaber, Iman Abdel Razzak
- Abstract
Objectives: To identify the knowledge before and after implementation of nursing interventions and to determine the impact of nursing interventions upon women's practices of BSE in post test and to find out the relationship between women's practices after two months toward performing and management of breast self-examination among study group with studied variables. A quasi-experimental design (one group, a pretest- post test approach) was carried out on (120) working women at Ministry of Industry & Minerals / State Battery Manufacturing Company and Sewing Factory Baghdad (Tents) and Higher Judicial Council- Iraq at Baghdad city. The study demonstrated that the highest percentage (39.2%) within age group of (41-50) years, (30%) were primary school graduate, (59.2%) were married and (73.9%) of them their age at marriage is (20-39) years old with mean and SD (25.18±7.72), (45.8%) of them were live in nuclear families. The highest percentage (53.3%) of study sample their age at menarche is between 13-14 years, (85.8%) has a regular menstrual cycle. (54.5%) of them had (1-4) pregnancies, (72.7%) had (1-4) deliveries, (72.7%) did not have any type of abortion, (12.5%) had infertility, (27.3%) using hormonal contraceptive.
- Subjects
IRAQ; BAGHDAD (Iraq); EARLY detection of cancer; NURSING interventions; WOMEN employees; BREAST self-examination; NUCLEAR families
- Publication
Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development, 2018, Vol 9, Issue 12, p999
- ISSN
0976-0245
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5958/0976-5506.2018.01979.4