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The role of a nurse at coping with a technique of breast self-exam
ŠOJSLOVÁ, Dana
The aim of this study was to determine how nurses and women - non-health workers managed a breast self-examination technique and a range of educational activities of nurses in breast self-examination issue. Using four determined hypotheses the knowledge about breast cancer itself, as well as knowledge about breast self-examination techniques and education of nurses from different workplaces were studied. A quantitative survey by means of questionnaires was performed. The first questionnaire with 21 questions was for women - non-health workers, which were predominantly from České Budějovice, from offices, schools, students, friends and relatives. The second questionnaire was for nurses with 20 questions. The nurses who participated in the survey were employees of the various wards of the hospitals in České Budějovice, Tábor, Český Krumlov, Strakonice and from physicians{\crq} offices. In the theoretical part of this work the importance of the theme of ``breast disease{\crqq} was reiterated due to the fact that in our country the most common malignancy of women was breast cancer. The growing number of newly diagnosed breast cancer per year worldwide is alarming. The breast self-examination shall help especially women under 45 years of age in the detection of breast pathology. Each woman should be familiar with prevention and risk factors that contribute to breast diseases. The results of the survey show that women - non-health workers demonstrate sufficient knowledge in matters of what the breast self-examination is, the time intervals of the self-examination and what position for the self-examination to choose. Only half of all surveyed women knew in which period of the menstrual cycle it was appropriate to carry out the self-examination and, surprisingly, there was a lack of knowledge in question "In what difficulties should you visit the doctor." The inquiry has shown that most women have never been asked to carry out the breast self-examination by their doctor. The questionnaire survey of nurses showed that breast disease was still topical issue for them, and their knowledge about the breast self-examination was sufficient. Most of the surveyed nurses have never educated their patients even participated in a workshop on the self-examination and breast diseases in the past five years.
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