Awareness and practice of breast self-examination among female staff at Babcock University, Nigeria

Julius Olatade Maitanmi¹, Olaide Fadare¹, Moyosola Kolawole², Damilare Matthew Aduroja², Damilola M Faleti², Bukola Titilope Maitanmi¹ and Oluwadamilare Akingbade^2,3

ecancer 17 1615 (2023) https://doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2023.1615

¹School of Nursing, Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo, Ogun State 121103, Nigeria

²Institute of Nursing Research, Osogbo, Osun State 230262, Nigeria

³Faculty of Medicine, The Nethersole School of Nursing, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, China

Keywords: awareness, breast self-examination (BSE), practice, female

Correspondence to: Damilare Matthew Aduroja
Email: damilareaduroja@gmail.com

Published: 05/01/2024
Received: 7/12/2023

Publication costs for this article were supported by ecancer (UK Charity number 1176307).

Copyright: © the authors; licensee ecancermedicalscience. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

The text related to Table 6 was incorrect and should be as follows:

Table 6 shows the practice rating scale used in measuring good or poor practice of BSE.

The practice score in Table 5 was rated on a 27-point rating scale as shown in Table 6, with a mean score of 16.3.

Scores of 17 and above (53.8%) were rated as poor practice, and scores below 17 (46.3%) indicated good practice of breast self-examination.

It can therefore be concluded that the majority of the respondents exhibited poor practice of BSE.

Table 6. Level of BSE Practice Rating Scale.