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

Table 5

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

Beliefs	Age group				𝐹	Tukey's HSD^a
	A (𝑛=522)	B (𝑛=249)	C (𝑛=177)	D (𝑛=132)
Susceptibility	2.90 ± 1.10	2.89 ± 1.12	2.67 ± 1.16	2.57 ± 1.08	4.851	A, B > C, D
Seriousness	3.73 ± .67	3.79 ± .68	3.65 ± .79	3.67 ± .73	1.601	N.S
Fatalism	3.76 ± .81	3.93 ± .76	3.94 ± .77	4.03 ± .66	6.176	A < B, C, D B, C < D

A: 30–39 years; B: 40–49 years; C: 50–59 years; D: ≥60 years.
^aMean differences for the Tukey's HSD pairwise comparisons (𝑃<.05).