MOTIVATION FOR BREAST SELF-EXAMINATION:
AN APPLICATION OF THE THEORY OF PLANNED ACTION
Keywords:
Health believes, Breast self-exam, Health care, Theory of planned action, Brazilian womenAbstract
A questionnaire based on health belief models and the
theory of planned action was answered by 178 women, on their
knowledge and practice of breast self-exam. (BSE). Results show a good level of knowledge about general health care and BSE. Beliefs about
doing BSE were favorable, but laziness, personal worries and
forgetfulness were presented as the main barriers to its regular practice.
Among the variables of the planned action model two of them influenced
the intention of performing BSE; the opinions of relevant others and the
experience of prior practice, explaining 24% of the variance in the
behavioral intention. The women were then separated in two groups, on
the basis of their practice of BSE. For the practicing group, the opinions of
others, the perception of control over the behavior and their confidence in
performing the BSE explained 36% of the obtained variance. For the group
of non performers, 28% of the variance was explained by a lower
educacional level and the opinions of relevant others.
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Ajzen, I. (1987). Attitudes, traits and actions: Dispositional prediction of behavior in
personality and social psychology. Em L. Berkowitz. (Org.) Advances in social
psychology, (vol. 20). New York: Academic Press.
Ajzen, I. (1988). Attitudes personality and behavior. Milton Keynes, G.B.: Open
University Press.
Ajzen, l.,& Fishbein, M. (1980). Understanding attitudes and predicting social behavior.
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.: Prentice-Hall.
American Cancer Society (1980). Cancer of the breast. C.A.: A Cancer Journal for
Clinitians, 30, 224-229.
Backer, L. (1982). Breast cancer detection project: Five years summary report. C.A.:
A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 32(4), 194-225.
Calnan, M. (1985). Patterns in preventive behavior: a study of women in middle age.
Em Social Science Medicine, 20(3), 263-268.
Celentano, D., & Holtzman, D. (1983). Breast self-examination competency: An
analysis of self-reported practice and associated characteristics. American
Journal of Public Health, 73(11), 1321 -1323.
Edwards, V. (1980). Changing breast self-examination behavior. Nursing Research,
29(5), 301-306.
Fishbein, M., & Ajzen, I. (1975). Belief, attitude, intention and behavior: An introduction
to theory and research. Readings. Mass: Addinson-Wesley.
Foster, R.S., Lang, S.P., Constanza, M. C, Worden, J. K., Haines, C.R., & Yates, J.
W. (1978). Breast self-examination practices and breast cancer stage. The New
England Journal of Medicine, 299(6), 265-270.
Greenwald, P., Nasca, P.C., Lawrence, C.E., Horton, J., McGarrah, R.P., Gabriele, Т.,
& Carlton, K. (1978). Estimated effect of breast examination and routine physician
examinations on breast cancer mortality. The New England Journal of Medicine,
299(6), 271-273.
Grube, J., Morgan, M., & McGee, T. (1986). Attitudes and normative beliefs as
predictors of smoking intentions and behaviors: A test of three models. Journal of
Psychology, 25, 81 -93.
Hill, D., Gardner, G., & Rassaby, J. (1985). Factors predispositing women to take
precautions against breast and cervix cancer. Jornal of Applied Social
Psychology, 15(1), 59-79.
Howe, H.L. (1981). Social factors associated with breast self-examination among
high-risk women. American Journal of Public Health, 71, 251 -255.
Huguley, С M., & Brown, R. L. (1981). The value of breast self-examination. Cancer,
47, 989-995.
Jacob, Т., Penn, N. E., & Brown, M. (1989). Breast self-examination: Knowledge,
attitudes and performance among black women. Journal of the National Medical
Association, 81,769-776.
Ronis, D., & Kaiser, M. (1989). Correlates of breast self-examination in a sample of
college women: Analysis of linear structural relations. Journal of Applied Social
Psychology, 19(13), 1068-1084.
Sattin, R. W., Rubin, G. L., Webster, LA., Huezo, С M., Wingo, P. A., Ory, H. W.,&
Layde, P. M. (1985). Family history and the risk of breast cancer. Journal of the
American Medical Association, 253(13), 1908-1913.
Stachnick, T. J. (1980). Priorities for psychologist in medical education and health care
delivery. American Psychologist, 38(1), 8-15.
Stillman, M. J. (1977). Women's health beliefs about breast cancer and breast
self-examination. Nursing Research, 26(2), 121-127.
Worden, J. K., Constanza, M., Foster Jr., R., Lang, S., & Tidd, С (1983). Content and
context in bealth education: Persuading women to perform breast
self-examination. Preventive Medicine, 12, 331-339.
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2012-08-23
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D’Amorim, M. A., Freitas, C. M., & Chrockatt de Sá, G. A. (2012). MOTIVATION FOR BREAST SELF-EXAMINATION:: AN APPLICATION OF THE THEORY OF PLANNED ACTION. Psicologia: Teoria E Pesquisa, 8(02), 169–185. Retrieved from https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/revistaptp/article/view/17131
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