Adherence to Recommended Breast Cancer Screening in Iranian Turkmen Women: The Role of Knowledge and Beliefs

Table 4

Beliefs related to breast cancer screening adherence and educational levels in a sample of Iranian Turkmen women.

Beliefs	Educational levels						𝐹	Tukey's HSD^a
	A (𝑛=397)	B (𝑛=352)	C (𝑛=131)	D (𝑛=41)	E (𝑛=104)	F (𝑛=49)
Susceptibility	2.66 ± 1.11	2.91 ± 1.20	2.78 ± .95	2.69 ± .96	3.07 ± 1.10	3.25 ± .95	4.805	A, B < C, D, E, F C, D, E < F
Seriousness	3.74 ± .73	3.82 ± .66	3.66 ± .67	3.65 ± .59	3.55 ± .75	3.57 ± .73	3.397	N.S
Fatalism	4.02 ± .68	3.96 ± .76	3.79 ± .69	3.45 ± .94	3.49 ± .89	3.26 ± .87	18.650	F, E, D < C, B, A, C < B, A

A: illiterate; B: less than 5 years; C: 6–8 years; D: 9–11 years; E: high school graduate; F: college level.
^aMean differences for the Tukey's HSD pairwise comparisons (𝑃<.05).