Breast cancer risk perceptions of Turkish women attending primary care: a cross-sectional study

BMC Women's Health

Table 3 Distribution of accuracy of risk perceptions of women according to sociodemographic and health related characteristics

		Underestimated		Accurate		Overestimated		p-value
		n	%	n	%	n	%	p-value
Age groups	45-54	8	3.9	131	64.5	64	31.5	<0.001
	55-64	35	14.8	157	66.2	45	19.0
	≥65	49	26.6	121	65.8	14	7.6
Education	Illiterate	4	22.2	14	77.8	0	0.0	0.019
	Primary school	25	11.3	153	69.2	43	19.5
	Secondary school	18	19.8	55	60.4	18	19.8
	High school	22	12.2	127	70.2	32	17.7
	University and above	23	20.4	60	53.1	30	26.5
Work status	Working	1	2.2	30	66.7	14	31.1	0.015
Work status	Not working	91	15.7	379	65.5	109	18.8	0.015
Marital status	Single	11	34.4	20	62.5	1	3.1	0.001
	Married/partner	50	13.2	239	63.2	89	23.5
	Divorced	7	11.1	41	65.1	15	23.8
	Widowed	24	15.9	109	72.2	18	11.9
Health status	Poor	4	18.2	13	59.1	5	22.7	0.351
	Fair	41	14.8	170	61.4	66	23.8
	Good	41	14.6	194	69.3	45	16.1
	Excellent	6	13.3	32	71.1	7	15.6
1st-degree relative with breast cancer	Yes	7	16.7	25	59.5	10	23.8	0.689
1st-degree relative with breast cancer	No	85	14.6	384	66.0	113	19.4	0.689
Contribution of family history to risk	Strong	44	13.3	222	67.3	64	19.4	0.008
	Moderate	24	12.4	121	62.7	48	24.9
	Weak	24	23.8	66	65.3	11	10.9
Breast self-examination	Yes	62	14.4	288	67.0	80	18.6	0.499
Breast self-examination	No	30	15.5	121	62.4	43	22.2	0.499
Mammography within last 5 years	Yes	58	14.9	252	64.8	79	20.3	0.862
Mammography within last 5 years	No	34	14.5	157	66.8	44	18.7	0.862
Breast cancer worry	Low	83	16.1	356	68.9	78	15.1	<0.001
	Average	8	13.6	25	42.4	26	44.1
	High	1	2.1	28	58.3	19	39.6

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