Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/80646
Title: Examining Asian Women’s Motivations to Undergo Breast Cancer Screening
Authors: Lwin, May Oo
Keywords: Breast
Self-efficacy
Coping appraisal
Cancer
Health education
Communication
Screening
Issue Date: 2015
Series/Report no.: Journal of Women's Health Care
Abstract: Purpose: This study utilizes Protection Motivation Theory as a theoretical framework to predict women’s intentions to go for mammogram screening in Singapore, a country with the highest incidence of breast cancer in Asia. Materials and Methods: A questionnaire centered on the theoretical predictive model of early detection behavior was developed to examine the hypothesized relationships. Data was collected from Singaporean women between 40 to 69 years of age. The data was analyzed using hierarchical regression. Results: Amongst all predictors tested, we found that Perceived Severity influences protection motivation (Beta=.346, p=.033), whereas Perceived Vulnerability has little effect on protection motivation (Beta= .075, p=. 355). There is also a significant relationship between Self-Efficacy and protection intention (Beta= .373, p<.001). However, contrary to expectations, neither Response Cost (Beta=.136, p=.101) nor Physical Cost (Beta=-.051, p=-.036) was related to protection intention. Conclusions: Our findings indicate that coping appraisal variables are more significantly associated with protection motivation than threat appraisal variables. In particular, self-efficacy was found to be the strongest predictor of breast cancer screening intentions, whereas response cost and physical cost were found to have little effect. This implies that breast cancer screening motivators should communicate the ease of undergoing the procedure and other confidence building messages. Implications for health education and policy are discussed.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/80646
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/38888
ISSN: 2167-0420
DOI: 10.4172/2167-0420.1000158
Schools: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information 
Rights: © 2014 Lwin MO. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Fulltext Permission: open
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