Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices on Breast Self-Examination of Students in the Health Area of Two Universities in the City of Cartagena

OBJECTIVE: To determine the knowledge, attitudes and practices on the self-examination of university students in the health area of ​​the universities of the city of Cartagena.

MATERIALS & METHODS: descriptive study, 415 students over 20 years old from the health of two universities of Cartagena participated, a multistage sampling was used, first a stratification was done for each university and health area program and then for semesters of universities with proportional fixation. The information collected was stored in Microsoft Excel 10 spreadsheet and analyzed using the statistical package SPSS 24.

RESULTS: In the assessment of knowledge, attitudes and practices on breast self-examination, it was found that 82.4% of the surveyed population knows how it is performed, 95.9% consider that self-examination is good, but only 74.5%% has been done.

CONCLUSION: Most of the students have good knowledge about breast self-examination, and a favorable attitude toward this procedure, however they do not do it properly, why they do not do it as often or at the right time.