Breast screening for post-menopausal women.
Aim: The aim of this study was to explore the extent of surveillance for breast cancer for post-menopausal women with learning disabilities living in residential care.Methodology: The primary carers of 129 post-menopausal women with learning disabilities living in three residential care settings wer...
| Publicado en: | Learning Disability Practice Vol. 12; no. 9; pp. 28 - 34 |
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Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom (The)
Nov2009
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=105245269&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 105245269 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 14658712 FTU jtl: Learning Disability Practice issn: 14658712 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Nov2009 vid: 12 iid: 9 pid: 6040 pub: Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom (The) artinfo: ui: 105245269 45390740 45390740 10.7748/ldp2009.11.12.9.28.c7380 105245269 ppf: 28 ppct: 6 formats: tig: atl: Breast screening for post-menopausal women. aug: au: Lalor A Redmond R affil: Clinical Nurse Manager, Stewart's Hospital Services Ltd, Palmerstown, Dublin sug: subj: Breast Neoplasms Diagnosis Cancer Screening Persons with Intellectual Disabilities Postmenopause Breast Self-Examination Caregivers Content Analysis Data Analysis Software Descriptive Research Disease Surveillance Exploratory Research Female Health Services Accessibility Ireland Mammography Patient Compliance Quantitative Studies Questionnaires Residential Care Surveys Female ab: Aim: The aim of this study was to explore the extent of surveillance for breast cancer for post-menopausal women with learning disabilities living in residential care.Methodology: The primary carers of 129 post-menopausal women with learning disabilities living in three residential care settings were surveyed using a newly developed questionnaire. The response rate was 69.7 per cent.Results: The findings revealed that 85.6 per cent of the sample received invitations to attend mammography breast screening, with an attendance rate of 93.5 per cent. However 16 per cent were unable to complete the procedure owing to difficulties such as fear, discomfort, distress and an inability to co-operate. Of the women surveyed 26.7 per cent received a manual breast examination. However 24 per cent of the entire sample did not receive any breast surveillance.Conclusions: Even though a substantial proportion of the women received breast screening, almost a quarter received no screening, owing to difficulties experienced during the procedure, not receiving an invitation to attend for screening or a failure to carry out manual breast examinations. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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