Breast self-examination after integrated preventive care in women served by a Family Medicine Unit

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Gallegos Palafox IE, Zonana Nacach S, Gonzáles Salas LE, Zapién Fuentes HK. Realización de la autoexploración mamaria posterior a la atención preventiva integrada en mujeres adscritas a una Unidad de Medicina de Familia. Rev. iberoam. Educ. investi. Enferm. 2014; 4(4):49-54.

Authors

1Irma Elisa Gallegos Palafox, 2Abraham Zonana Nacach, 1Laura Emilia Gonzáles Salas, 1Heydi Karina Zapién Fuentes

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1Hospital General de Subzona (HGSZ) y Medicina familiar (MF) Nº 6, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS), San José del Cabo BC. 2Unidad de Investigación Clínica y Epidemiología, Hospital General Regional Nº 20, IMSS, Tijuana BC.

Contact email: zonanaa@yahoo.com, abraham.zonana@imss.gob.mx

Abstract

Introduction: Breast cancer is the most common malignant disease in women. Breast self-examination is the main preventive measure, because 95% of breast tumors are detected by women themselves using such method. Nurses are the health care professionals most closely related to patient education aimed at learning the correct way to carry out breast self-examination.
Purpose: To asses correct breast self-examination (BSE) performance after integrated preventive care (IPC).
Methods: Women attending PREVENIMSS for an IPC and receiving the BSE-demonstration activity.
Results: 500 women, 84 (17%) performed BSE correctly. Women correctly performing BSE had more education years (9.3+2.7 8.0+5.8 years, p = 0.001) and had more commonly received a BSE-demonstration activity from a nurse (59% vs 46%, p = 0.02).
Conclusions: In order to perform BSE correctly, BSE should preferentially be learned using a demonstration method with a nurse.

Keywords:

breast self-examination; demonstration method; breast cancer; PREVENIMSS

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Realización de la autoexploración mamaria posterior a la atención preventiva integrada en mujeres adscritas a una Unidad de Medicina de Familia

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