title: US female college students' breast health knowledge, attitudes, and determinants of screening practices: new implications for health education.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study examined female college students' knowledge, attitudes, and breast cancer screening and determined significant predictors of breast self-examination, clinical breast examination, and mammography among this population.
  
  
  METHODS
  A convenience sample of 1,074 college women from 3 universities participated in the research.
  
  
  METHODS
  Respondents completed an online version of the Toronto Breast Self-examination Instrument as well as questions developed by the authors.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Descriptive statistics showed gaps in college women's knowledge of breast health and negative attitudes toward screening that were relative to age. Multiple linear and logistic regression analyses revealed that knowledge, attitudes, and copay were significant predictors of screening, whereas family history and ethnicity were not.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study supported previous smaller-sample studies that showed college women to be a priority population for breast health education and revealed new significant factors that should be addressed in health education for this group.
authors.affiliation: School of Health Sciences, Walden University, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55401, USA. jody.early@waldenu.edu
authors.forename: Jody
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Early
authors.forename: Shelley Nicole
authors.initials: SN
authors.lastname: Armstrong
authors.forename: Sloane
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Burke
authors.forename: Doris Lee
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Thompson
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology*; D016504:Breast Self-Examination; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods*; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006293:Health Promotion; D006304:Health Status; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008327:Mammography; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods / Q000523:psychology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D012737:Sex Factors; D040241:Social Marketing; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D014495:Universities; D016387:Women's Health; D055815:Young Adult