title: Health beliefs, health locus of control, and the frequency of practice of breast self-examination in women.
abstract: The relationship of health beliefs, health locus of control, and the frequency of practice of breast self-examination in women was explored through use of a survey. Health beliefs alone and health beliefs combined with internal health locus of control were found to predict the frequency of practice of breast self-examination in a sample of 48 women. The combined variables of health beliefs, internal health locus of control, religion, and occupation explained 80% of the variance in nonpractice and 73.3% of the variance for high practice. Moderate frequency practice was not a significant predictor of breast self-examination. Discriminant function analysis, canonical correlation, and analysis of variance were used in the data analysis.
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, Newark 07102.
authors.forename: N S
authors.initials: NS
authors.lastname: Redeker
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001294:Attitude to Health; D001940:Breast; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D009790:Occupations; D010173:Palpation; D012068:Religion and Medicine