Table 4 Knowledge and awareness on breast cancer screening before and after screening education delivery: community-based cancer screening educational program, Laredo, Texas, 2020–2021
From: Changes in knowledge and awareness for a community-based cancer screening educational program
Presurvey | Postsurvey | P | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Number | Proportion (%) | Number | Proportion (%) | ||
Risk factors of breast cancer | |||||
Getting older is a risk factor for breast cancer (yes vs. no) | 28 | 82.4 | 30 | 88.3 | 0.63 |
Smoking increases my risk of breast cancer (yes vs. no) | 30 | 88.2 | 32 | 94.1 | 0.69 |
Drinking alcohol increases my risk of breast cancer (yes vs. no) | 26 | 76.5 | 31 | 91.2 | 0.23 |
Breastfeeding may decrease my risk of breast cancer (yes vs. no) | 29 | 85.3 | 26 | 76.5 | 0.45 |
Having my mother or a sister with breast cancer means I am more likely-get it (yes vs. no) | 33 | 97.1 | 32 | 94.1 | 1.00 |
Married women are more likely-get breast cancer (no vs. yes) | 31 | 91.2 | 33 | 97.1 | 0.50 |
Symptoms of breast cancer | |||||
A lump in the breast is always breast cancer (no vs. yes) | 31 | 91.2 | 31 | 91.2 | 1.00 |
If a lump does not hurt, it is not breast cancer (no vs. yes) | 30 | 88.2 | 33 | 97.1 | 0.38 |
A woman can have breast cancer and not have any signs or symptoms (yes vs. no) | 33 | 97.1 | 32 | 94.1 | 1.00 |
Early detection of breast cancer | |||||
A mammogram is a blood test for breast cancer (no vs. yes) | 32 | 94.1 | 34 | 100 | |
If a woman had a mammogram once, she does not need to have a mammogram done again (no vs. yes) | 31 | 91.2 | 33 | 97.1 | 0.63 |
What age should you start getting mammograms? (choice = 40 years)? | 13 | 38.2 | 17 | 50.0 | 0.34 |
What is the best way-detect breast cancer (choice = mammography or mammogram)? | 32 | 94.1 | 34 | 100 | |