Dissemination of Breast Self-Examination among Female Students with Disabilities

Awad, Nessma Mohammed Sameeh; Abd ElGawad, Neama Abd ElFattah; El-Sayed, Hanan Fawzy

doi:10.21608/hijnrp.2025.322442.1223

Dissemination of Breast Self-Examination among Female Students with Disabilities

Document Type : Scientific Research Periodical

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¹ Faculty of Nursing -Fayoum University

² Maternal and new born health nursing faculty of nursing helwan university Cairo Egypt

³ Maternal and newborn health nursing- Faculty of Nursing- Helwan University

10.21608/hijnrp.2025.322442.1223

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Background: Breast self-examination is a way a female can check breasts by feeling for lumps or other changes. Breast self-exams can help a female learn how breasts normally look and feel and notice when changes occur. The aim of the study: was to disseminate of breast self-examination among female students with disabilities. Research design: Quasi-experimental research design used in the current study. Setting: The current study conducted at Intellectual School for the disabled female in Fayoum, city, Egypt. Sample: A convenient sample consists of fourty disabled female students. Tools: three main tools were used; tool 1: Interviewing questionnaire sheet, that included two parts, Part Ⅰ: Socio demographic data, Part Ⅱ: Practice assessment sheet, tool 2: Breast self-examination cheek list and tool3: Satisfaction assessment sheet. Results: the result of the current study showed that there was a statistically significant difference between studied female students regarding total practice toward breast self-examination. Conclusion: The practice of female students with disabilities were improved after the study. Recommendation: Improve health facilities to examine disabled female students and treat them if there are any breast problem according their disability.

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