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Blossiers, C., (2014). Conocimientos y prácticas del autoexamen de mamas en universitarias de la Escuela Académico Profesional de Medicina Humana y la Facultad de Educación de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 2012 [Tesis, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos]. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12672/3770
Blossiers, C., Conocimientos y prácticas del autoexamen de mamas en universitarias de la Escuela Académico Profesional de Medicina Humana y la Facultad de Educación de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 2012 [Tesis]. PE: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos; 2014. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12672/3770
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title = "Conocimientos y prácticas del autoexamen de mamas en universitarias de la Escuela Académico Profesional de Medicina Humana y la Facultad de Educación de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 2012",
author = "Blossiers Mazzini, Carolina",
publisher = "Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos",
year = "2014"
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The research aimed to identify, explore and analyze the association between knowledge and practice of breast self-examination, among the female college students of the Professional School of Human Medicine and College of Education. It was based on a quantitative, qualitative and cross-sectional. The Chi Square test determined that association between knowledge and practice of breast self-examination in university of the Academic College of Human Medicine and the College of Education p equal 0.031. In relation to the breast self-examination 99.19% of the female college students of the Professional School of Human Medicine and College of Educationcorrectly defined and knew of this technique. Also, 83.87% knew the procedure and what hand to use for the palpation of the breast. However, 62.10% were unaware of the period in which the practice of breast self-exam is done, despite its importance. Furthermore, we found that the practice of breast self-examination it is not performed with personal responsibility, it is not a habit. Of 124 female college students of the Professional School of Human Medicine and College of Education, a 39.47% and 55.56% respectively, did not have the habit of breast self-exam. However, we observe in our results that there is a higher proportion of female college students of the Professional School of Human Medicine and College of Education know and practice the self-exam than those who don’t. We consider that is central to point out, that the group who know about the self-exam but does not practice it represents the %50. Among other findings we observed that the body was important for the female college students of the Professional School of Human Medicine and College of Education. It was stressed that cultural beliefs and cultural factors,religious of the Andean woman, did not allow them to assess their bodies naturally, but rather appreciated it as something indecent, that should not be touched, that creates a lot of embarrassment, fear and reservation. In this regard, the female college students of the Professional School of Human Medicine and College of Education said their mothers constituted a pattern of behavior. To students of the Professional School of Human Medicine, meant learning to care for their bodies and incorporate breast self-examination as practice, since they perceived their mothers protecting their health by going to their cancer screenings. In the case of the female college students of the College of Education, the practice of breast self-examination, from a bodyperspective was linked to a private space and to the privacy of motherdaughter interaction. Keys words: knowledge, practices, self-examination, breast, college students.
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