The Effect Of Breast Cancer Fear And Fatalism Perceptions On Breast Cancer Eraly Diagnosis Behaviors Of The Nurses

Abstract

Purpose: This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of breast cancer fear and breast cancer fatalism perceptions on breast cancer early detection of the nurses. Methods: This descriptive study was carried with 178 women nurses working in a university hospital. Information Form, breast cancer fear scale and breast cancer fatalism scale were used for data collection. Descriptive statistics, Indepented t test, Mann Whitney-U test, Kruskal-Wallis test, Correlation analysis were used in data analyzing. Results: The nurses' mean score of breast cancer fear scale is 20.28 ± 8.03, and the mean score of breast cancer fatalism scale is 3.46 ± 1.42. A significant difference was found between self-examination and clinical breast examination and breast cancer fear scale scores (p < 0.05). There was no significant difference between breast cancer and early diagnosis behaviors and the mean scores of breast cancer fatalism scale (p > 0.05). Conclusions: Breast cancer fear and breast cancer fatality perception are important in breast cancer early diagnosis behaviors. It can be suggested to perform interventional nursing studies on this subject.