@article{article_544103, title={The Effect of Breast Cancer Fatalism Perception on Breast Cancer Health Beliefs of The Midwives and Nurses}, journal={Hacettepe Üniversitesi Hemşirelik Fakültesi Dergisi}, volume={6}, pages={10–19}, year={2019}, DOI={10.31125/hunhemsire.544103}, author={Kulakçı Altıntaş, Hülya and Korkmaz Aslan, Gülbahar}, keywords={Breast cancer,health beliefs,midwife,nurse,perception of fatalism}, abstract={<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"> <i> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:’Warnock Pro’, serif;" xml:lang="en-us">Aim </span> </i> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:’Warnock Pro’, serif;" xml:lang="en-us">: <i> </i> </span> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:’Warnock Pro’, serif;" xml:lang="en-us">This study
was conducted to evaluate the effect of breast cancer fatalism perception and
other factors on breast cancer health beliefs of the midwives and nurses. </span> </p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"> <i> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:’Warnock Pro’, serif;" xml:lang="en-us">Material
and Methods: </span> </i> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:’Warnock Pro’, serif;" xml:lang="en-us">This
cross-sectional and correlational study </span> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:’Warnock Pro’, serif;" xml:lang="en-us">was carried
with </span> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:’Warnock Pro’, serif;" xml:lang="en-us">327 midwives and nurses </span> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:’Warnock Pro’, serif;" xml:lang="en-us"> working
at public hospitals in Zonguldak City Center. </span> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:’Warnock Pro’, serif;" xml:lang="en-us">Information Form, </span> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:’Warnock Pro’, serif;" xml:lang="en-us">Powe
Fatalism Inventory </span> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:’Warnock Pro’, serif;" xml:lang="en-us"> and
Champion’s Health Belief Model Scale were used for data collection. </span> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:’Warnock Pro’, serif;" xml:lang="en-us">Numerical and percentage values, </span> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:’Warnock Pro’, serif;" xml:lang="en-us">Mann Whitney-U test, Kruskal-Wallis test, Spearman c </span> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:’Warnock Pro’, serif;" xml:lang="en-us">orrelation analysis and </span> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:’Warnock Pro’, serif;" xml:lang="en-us">Mann-Whitney U test with Bonferroni correction were used </span> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:’Warnock Pro’, serif;" xml:lang="en-us">in data analyzing. </span> </p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"> <i> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:’Warnock Pro’, serif;" xml:lang="en-us">Results: </span> </i> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:’Warnock Pro’, serif;" xml:lang="en-us"> </span> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:’Warnock Pro’, serif;" xml:lang="en-us">It was found that seriousness, health motivation, breast self-examination
benefits and breast self-examination self-efficacy perceptions of the midwives
and nurses were moderate, and susceptibility, breast self-examination barriers and breast cancer fatalism perceptions
were low. And also, it was determined that there was a negative and weak correlation
between perception of breast cancer fatalism and breast self-examination
benefits <i>(r = </i> -.151, <i>p </i> <i>= </i>
.006). </span> </p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"> <i> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:’Warnock Pro’, serif;" xml:lang="en-us">Conclusion: </span> </i> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:’Warnock Pro’, serif;" xml:lang="en-us"> Evaluating
the factors affecting health beliefs of the midwives and nurses is important to
increase the awareness for breast cancer. </span> </p> <p> </p>}, number={1}, publisher={Hacettepe Üniversitesi}