Knowledge and Practice of Breast Self-examination Among College Students in Private University.

Breast self-examination is a simple, very low cost /no cost, noninvasive with no special material/tool required and it is an effective diagnostic method for breast cancer, which only takes five minutes to apply. The main objective of the study to assess the level of Knowledge and Practice of Breast self-examination among nursing and physiotherapy students in selected Private University in Malaysia. Adescriptive, cross-sectional survey design was adopted for this study and Simple random sampling method was used to select the 85 nursing students from nursing faculty and 85 Physiotherapy students from Allied Medical Science, total of 170 students were included. Validity and reliability were examined with ethical approval from both faculties. Results revealed that overall 81.2% of the respondents had good knowledge towards BSE, The major source of information about BSE (40.0 % ) from mass media & classes and 21.2% practices BSE always every month. There was a signicant difference between Knowledge & Practice and Academic on BSE. (P= 0.012, p=0.009) respectively. The highest level of BSE practice were from Nursing student and Highest level of knowledge on BSE were from Physiotherapy students. Study concluded that, the overall good knowledge on BSE were identied, but low Practice of BSE was recorded. Mass Media is an important source of information about BSE to improve awareness among students, it is highly recommended to include BSE in the curriculum and BSE Practice among the student must be emphasized.. © 2020, Indian Journal of Applied Research. All rights reserved.