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The Relationship Between Self‐Esteem, Health Habits, and Knowledge of BSE Practice in Female Inmates
Author(s) -
Brewer M. Kathleen,
Baldwin Dee
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
public health nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.471
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1525-1446
pISSN - 0737-1209
DOI - 10.1046/j.1525-1446.2000.00016.x
Subject(s) - prison , breast self examination , self esteem , psychology , medicine , clinical psychology , family medicine , criminology , cancer , breast cancer
This article reports on data derived from an investigation of the self‐esteem, health habits, and knowledge of breast self‐examination (BSE) practice in female inmates. A descriptive correlational study was conducted with a prison sample of 197 adult females incarcerated in a women's state prison. Major findings of the study suggest that female inmates in general had medium to high self‐esteem, poor health habits before incarceration, and minimal knowledge about BSE practice. Only 26% reported correct knowledge related to frequency in BSE practice, and few reported that they knew correct BSE technique. In addition, findings suggest that a correlation does not exist between self‐esteem and knowledge of BSE practice, and participants' last grade completed served as a good predictor of women's knowledge of BSE practice.