EXECUTIF SUMMAR
This study reminds us of the importance of knowledge of
prevention measures in the fight against breast cancer. Apart from the general
question, we asked ourselves two specific questions:
- What are the health measures that pregnant women know to
prevent breast cancer at Panzi HGR?
- What is the socio-cultural knowledge of pregnant women about
preventive breast cancer measures at Panzi HGR?
The overall goal being the assessment of pregnant women's
knowledge about breast cancer preventive measures at the Panzi Reference
General Hospital, our study had two specific objectives:
- To study the knowledge of pregnant women about health
measures for breast cancer prevention at Panzi HGR;
- To identify the knowledge of pregnant women about the
socio-cultural measures of breast cancer prevention at the Panzi HGR.
From the first step, we have made two assumptions that:
- Mammography, palpation or breast self-examination would be
the health knowledge of pregnant women about preventive breast cancer measures
at Panzi HGR.
- Age, education level, function and diet or lifestyle may be
the cultural knowledge that pregnant women have about preventive measures of
breast cancer at Panzi HGR
To verify our hypotheses, we analyzed the following
indicators:
v Have already had a mammogram;
v Have already performed breast self-examination;
v Age, level of study
v Lifestyle (diet, sport and weight loss)
The first hypothesis was not confirmed in the sense that only
2.8% of women (n = 6), still aged 25 to 39 years, had mammograms for breast
cancer screening, frequency however, this screening is not completed. It is
questionable whether this rate of participation in mammograms as part of
prevention is a reflection of a sample of women not yet sensitized to the cause
of breast cancer control, linked to a selection of respondents limited to
pregnant women at the Panzi HGR. It can also be noted that 9.9% of women under
50 (n = 21) have already performed a mammogram in another setting. These
figures show a low rate of participation of women in mammography, related
either to lack of information or lack of awareness of the use of this method in
the prevention of ductal carcinoma. As for breast self-examination, 60.85% of
women say they have never done it even once. This figure shows that a majority
of the women interviewed are not sensitive to this cause and have never been
interested in it. For those women who have never performed breast
self-examination (n = 129), the main reasons are never to have learned (55.9%
of women) and not to think about it (35%). 6% of women). Contrary to the
assumption made at the beginning of this study, mammography and breast
self-examination are health measures that are not known to pregnant women at
Panzi HGR.
The second assumption that socio-cultural knowledge is an
asset in the prevention of breast cancer by pregnant women with Panzi HGR has
been asserted in the sense that 84.0% of women with an age ranging from 25 and
39 years, 52.8% of them with a graduate degree, 75.9% rated life as an
essential element in the prevention of breast cancer.
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