Practices of Breast Self-Examination and Associated Factors among Female Debre Berhan University Students

Table 4

Factors associated with practices of BSE among female DBU students.

Variables	Category	Practices of BSE		COR (95% CI)	AOR (95% CI)
		Yes (%)	No (%)
College	Health science	76 (22.5)	262 (77.5)	⁢5.102 (2.891–9.004	1.158 (0.468–2.864)
	Nonhealth	37 (59.7)	25 (40.3)
Year of study	1st year	10 (20)	40 (80)
	2nd year	34 (21.4)	125 (78.6)	1.088 (0.494–2.397)	0.472 (0.142–1.565)
	3rd year	30 (36.1)	53 (63.9)	2.264 (0.992–5.167)	0.831 (0.222–3.108)
	4th year	20 (41.7)	28 (58.3)	⁢2.857 (1.162–7.025	0.881 (0.210–3.697)
	5th year	19 (31.7)	41 (68.3)	1.854 (0.768–4.473)	1.698 (0.463–6.231)
Ever heard of BSE	Yes	99 (38.7)	157 (61.3)	⁢5.855 (3.194–10.733	0.684 (0.278–1.686)
	No	14 (9.7)	130 (90.3)
Knowing how to perform BSE	Yes	97 (67.8)	46 (32.2)	⁢31.762 (17.159–58.793	⁢11.197 (4.542–27.607
	No	16 (6.2)	241 (93.8)
Knowing when to perform BSE	Yes	81 (66.4)	41 (33.6)	⁢15.187 (8.974–25.702	⁢3.507 (1.620–7.593
	No	32 (11.5)	246 (88.5)
Knowing the three positions to perform BSE	Yes	83 (50.3)	82 (49.7)	⁢6.917 (4.238–11.288	⁢2.253 (1.104–4.599
	No	30 (12.8)	205 (87.2)
Believing that BSE is important & useful to detect breast cancer	Agree	109 (31.4)	238 (68.6)	⁢5.496 (1.656–18.236	⁢6.837 (1.640–28.509
	Disagree	3 (7.7)	36 (92.3)

Statistical significance.
1: reference group.