knowledge and attitude of women from the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul regarding discovery of breast cancer
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- breast cancer, knowledge, attitudeC04.588.180K01.468F01.100
- Registration Number
- RBR-56dkrb
- Lead Sponsor
- Departamento de Enfermagem da Universidade Federal do Ceará
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Data analysis completed
- Sex
- Female
- Target Recruitment
- Not specified
Inclusion Criteria
Women over 18 and under 80 years of age;with cognitvas able to perform the reading of educational material ; with conditions to respond to the study questions
Exclusion Criteria
Illiterate women; who did not have a position to answer the questions raised by the research, based on age , level of consciousness or difficulty of communication
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Intervention
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Increased by at least 20% in the adequacy of knowledge and attitude of women in relation to the early detection of breast cancer in the experimental group; the confidence level of the study was 95 % ; x2 Pearson's test was used to assess the adequacy of knowledge and attitude among groups;At the end of the study there was an increase of 78% in the percentage of adequacy of knowledge and attitude toward early detection of breast cancer among women in the experimental group, the x2 Pearson's test to compare the adequacy of knowledge and attitude between the experimental and control group had a 0,001 value
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Secondary outcomes are expected not