Knowledge and Acceptance Towards Mammography as Breast Cancer Screening Tool Among Yogyakarta Women and Health Care Providers (Mammography Screening in Indonesia)

Choridah, Lina and Icanervilia, Ajeng Viska and de Wit, Marloes Josephia Maria and van Asselt, Antoinette D.I. and Kurniawan, Wahyu Tri and Fahmi, Yusnia Irchami and Rengganis, Anggraeni Ayu (2021) Knowledge and Acceptance Towards Mammography as Breast Cancer Screening Tool Among Yogyakarta Women and Health Care Providers (Mammography Screening in Indonesia). Journal of Cancer Education, 36 (3). 532 – 537. ISSN 08858195

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Abstract

Annual mammography remains the gold standard of asymptomatic breast cancer screening for women starting at the age of 40. However, Indonesia has not designated mammography as its national screening program. To help policymakers decide whether mammography should be introduced into a national program, it is important to comprehensively understand the knowledge and acceptance of both consumers and providers. A total of 25 subjects including a range of women and health care professionals (HCPs) in Yogyakarta Province were recruited using purposive, maximum variation sampling and then interviewed in-depth. The interviews were recorded and all data were taken and transcribed from the audio recording, which were subsequently translated to English and analyzed thematically. Almost all of Yogyakarta women had heard about the term of mammography. However, only few of them have let themselves be screened, mainly because of their perceived lack of urgency to screen for asymptomatic breast cancer. Another important reason was the high cost of mammography. Meanwhile, several HCPs believed that breast cancer has not been a priority for the government and hence the government limited mammography screening’s access and excluded it from the national insurance coverage. Most women in Yogyakarta have a good understanding about breast cancer screening, but their acceptance of mammography as a breast cancer screening tool is significantly influenced by high cost, limited access, and lack of urgency. © 2019, The Author(s).

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: Cited by: 6; All Open Access, Green Open Access, Hybrid Gold Open Access
Uncontrolled Keywords: Breast Neoplasms; Early Detection of Cancer; Female; Health Personnel; Humans; Indonesia; Mammography; Mass Screening; Patient Acceptance of Health Care; breast tumor; early cancer diagnosis; female; health care personnel; human; Indonesia; mammography; mass screening; patient attitude
Subjects: R Medicine > RB Biomedical Sciences
Divisions: Faculty of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing > Biomedical Sciences
Depositing User: Sri JUNANDI
Date Deposited: 26 Sep 2024 01:00
Last Modified: 26 Sep 2024 01:00
URI: https://ir.lib.ugm.ac.id/id/eprint/4646

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