Evaluation of Breast Cancer (BC) Awareness among Female University Students in Zarqa University, Jordan

Abstract

Objective: The purposes of this study were to assess the level of Breast Cancer (BC) awareness of Jordanian female university students, measuretheir attitudes toward BC treatment, and compare the level of awareness and attitudes of students in the science and humanities faculties.Materials and Methods: The current study was cross-sectional and conducted among female students in Zarqa University in Jordan. Stratifiedrandom sampling and simple random sampling were employed to select the colleges and the students, respectively. The sample size was 326 students.Data was collected and analyzed by self-administered questionnaire and SPSS version 23.0, respectively.Results: The number (proportion) of university students who had poor levels of awareness of BC, general knowledge about BC scale, knowledgeabout BC symptoms scale, and knowledge about risk factors of BC scale were was 270 (83%), 166 (51%), 182 (56%) and 292 (90%), respectively.Also, 92 (28%) students and 234 (72%) students had high and medium attitudes toward BC treatment, respectively. There were significant differences between the humanities and science faculties students’ awareness about BC and their attitudes toward BC treatment (p