Practice and Barriers toward Breast Self-Examination among Palestinian Women in Gaza City, Palestine

Table 5

Bivariate analysis: association between breast self-examination (BSE) and sociodemographic variables.

	Variable		Practicing BSE	Not practicing BSE	OR	CI	value
1	Age	40 and less	122	218	0.288	0.154–0.539	0.000^†‡§
		More than 40	33	17
2	Employment	Have a job	52 (43%)	69 (57%)	1.251	0.785–1.878	0.382^‡§
		Jobless	103 (38.3%)	166 (61.7%)
3	Income	1500 or less	87 (33.6%)	172 (66.4%)	0.469	0.305–0.720	0.000^†‡§
		More than 1500	68 (51.9%)	63 (48.1%)
4	Marital status	Married	140 (41.2%)	200 (58.8%)	0.612	0.322–1.164	0.132^‡§
		Other	15 (30%)	35 (70%)
5	Education	Primary and secondary	29	41	1.089	0.644–1.842	0.75^‡§
		University and higher education	126	194
6	Family history of BC	Yes	27 (60%)	18 (40%)	2.543	1.347–4.799	0.003^‡§
		No	128 (37.1%)	217 (62.9)
7	Previous exposure to breast disease	Yes	13 (61.9%)	8 (38.1%)		1.051–6.424	0.033^‡§
		No	142 (38.5%)	227 (61.5%)	2.598
8	Family history of cancer	Yes	40 (46%)	47 (54%)	1.391	0.860–2.251	0.178^§‡
		No	115 (38%)	188 (62%)

value <0.05, value <0.001^†, Pearson Chi-Square^‡, and Fisher’s Exact Test^§.