HUBUNGAN PENGETAHUAN DENGAN PERILAKU SADARI SEBAGAI DETEKSI DINI KANKER PAYUDARA
ABSTRACT: The highest cancer
of Indonesian’s women is breast cancer. The issue of breast cancer become
larger because more than 70% of patients come to the doctor in advanced stage.
Early detection of breast cancer symptoms is very important. The main purpose
of early detection of breast cancer is to find the cancer in the early stages
(level I), so the treatment becomes easier (Putra, 2015). Breast self examination
is a simple filtering technique, and not expensive, but it is very effective to
know the existence of cancer in early stage. Breast self examination should be
done every month by women more than 20 years old. The aims of this research is
to know the correlation between knowledge and breast self examination behavior
as early detection of breast cancer. The type of this research is observational
analytic research with cross sectional approach. Total population of 69 people,
then the sampling done by the total sample that meets the inclusion and
exclusion criteria to 67 people student of Midwifery Academy of Yayasan RS
Jakarta. Instrument research using questionnaires. Data analysis technique
using the Spearman's rank. Conclusion: there is a positive and significant
relationship between knowledge with behavior realize as early detection of
breast cancer correlation coefficients of π = 0.674 with significance level of
0.00 (P < 0.05).
Keywords: Knowledge, Breast
self examination, Breast cancer
Penulis: Reni Puspita Sari
Kode Jurnal: jpkebidanandd170346
