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Health Education Research, Vol. 3, No. 2, 181-189, 1988
© 1988 Oxford University Press

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Breast self-examination among older women

J. A. Baker

Department of Health Education, Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX 76204 USA

The problem addressed by this study is the failure of most older women to perform breast self-examination correctly. In order to tailor breast self-examination education efforts to older women, it is necessary to identify the attitudes and behaviors that older women bring to education programs. As part of a quasi-experimental study to evaluate a theoretical approach to breast self-examination education, 194 women, aged 60 and older, were interviewed regarding their pre-intervention self-efficacy and beliefs about breast cancer and breast self-examination. Age, motivation and self-efficacy accounted for 15% of the variance (P <.001) in number of breast self-examination techniques performed. Results are discussed in terms of their implications for designing breast self-examination educational interventions for older women that focus on self-efficacy.


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