@article{article_677985, title={Vocational school students’ beliefs and attitudes towards breast cancer}, journal={Adıyaman Üniversitesi Sağlık Bilimleri Dergisi}, volume={6}, pages={111–117}, year={2020}, DOI={10.30569/adiyamansaglik.677985}, author={Kaş, Canan and Kırca, Kamile}, keywords={İnanç,Meme kanseri,Öğrenci,Tutum}, abstract={<p> </p> <div style="text-align:justify;"> <span style="font-size:14px;"> <b>Aim: </b> The aim of this study was to determine vocational school students’ beliefs and attitudes towards breast cancer. </span> </div> <div style="text-align:justify;"> <span style="font-size:14px;"> <b>Materials and Methods: </b>The descriptive study was conducted with 255 female students at Kastamonu University Taşköprü Vocational School in the 2018-2019 Academic Year. Data were collected using a “Descriptive Characteristics Form” and Champion’s Health Belief Model Scale" for breast cancer screening. </span> </div> <div style="text-align:justify;"> <span style="font-size:14px;"> <b>Results: </b>The mean age of participants was 19.74±18.4 years and 48.6% were medical documentation and secretarial students. Participants’ CHBMS subscale scores showed that they had high perceptions of benefits of breast self-examination, low perceptions of seriousness, barriers to performing breast self-examination and health motivation. Participants who performed breast self-examination had higher perceptions of benefits of breast self-examination and confidence/self-efficacy and lower perceptions of barriers to performing breast self-examination than those who had never performed breast self-examination before ( <i>p </i><0.01). </span> </div> <div style="text-align:justify;"> <span style="font-size:14px;"> <b>Conclusion: </b>Training on health promoting behaviors should be added to curricula. </span> </div>}, number={1}, publisher={Adıyaman Üniversitesi}, organization={yok}