Awareness of Hospital Cleaning Staff on Breast Cancer and Screening Tests

Year 2021, Volume: 6 Issue: 4, 591 - 598, 01.12.2021

Cagla Yıgıtbas , Fatma Genç

https://doi.org/10.26453/otjhs.892379

Abstract

Objective: The aim of this study was to compare the knowledge of hospital cleaning staff on breast cancer and screening test and their status of undergoing screening in terms of socio-demographic characteristics.

Materials and Methods: This is a descriptive cross-sectional study. The data were collected with a questionnaire form prepared by the researchers in accordance with the literature. The study was conducted with the voluntary participation of 82.5% of the cleaning staff (the total number of employees is 160 individuals) in an institution providing secondary health care in a city center. The type I error level was set at 0.05.

Results: Of the participants, 74.2% stated that they knew about the screening methods. The variables of knowing breast cancer symptoms and the place where screenings are performed were significant in terms of having a screening test, while the presence of a history of cancer in the family and whether to believe in the importance of early diagnosis were not significant.

Conclusion: The knowledge of hospital staff on breast cancer and screening test and their behaviours of having screening does not make any difference in terms of many socio-demographic characteristics.  

Keywords

Breast cancer, hospital cleaning staff, screening test

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Hastane Temizlik Personelinin Meme Kanseri ve Tarama Testlerine Farkındalıkları

Abstract

Amaç: Bu çalışmanın amacı hastanede çalışan temizlik personelinin meme kanseri-tarama testi bilgisi ve tarama yaptırma durumlarını sosyodemografik özellikler açısından karşılaştırmaktır.

Materyal ve Metot: Tanımlayıcı kesitsel tipte araştırmadır. Veriler, araştırıcılar tarafından literatüre uygun olarak hazırlanan anket formu ile toplanmıştır. Bir il merkezindeki ikinci basamak sağlık hizmeti sunan kurumdaki temizlik personelinin %82,5 oranındaki (toplam çalışan sayısı 160 kişidir) gönüllü katılımıyla gerçekleştirilmiştir.

Bulgular: Katılımcıların %74,2’si tarama yöntemlerini bildiklerini belirtmişlerdir. Meme kanseri belirtilerini bilme ve taramaların yapıldığı yeri bilme değişkenleri tarama testi yaptırması açısından önemli bulunmuş ailede kanser öyküsünün olup olmaması ve erken teşhisin önemine inanıp inanmama önemli bulunmamıştır.

Sonuç: Hastanede çalışan personelin meme kanseri–tarama testleri bilgileri ve tarama yaptırma davranışları pek çok sosyodemografik özellik açısından fark oluşturmamaktadır. 

Keywords

hastane temizlik personeli, Meme kanseri, tarama testi

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