Nível de conhecimento de universitárias sobre neoplasia maligna da mama

Abstract

The malignant breast neoplasm is the most incident disease on women in the world, with a total of 25% of the cases in 2012. In Brazil, it corresponds to 22% of new cases each year. This present research aims to describe the knowledge of students from a federal university in the Northeast about the malignant breast neoplasm. It is a descriptive, explanatory, with a quantitative approach study. The sample was a total of 206 students from Nursing, Odontology, Pharmacy, Geography, Social Work and Mathematics courses. The execution of data collection occurred in the period between June and August in 2017 through a semi-structured interview questionnaire. The data were collected after approval of the project by the Research Ethics Committee under the number 65966217.6.0000.5013 and signing of the Informed Consent Term. The study pointed that the majority of the students received information on malignant breast neoplasm (83%); in relation to cancer predisposing factors 77% of the students marked the option "lifestyle" while 65,06% affirmed didn't receive information on breast selfexamination. As to the knowledge obtained in the university, just the Nursing course itself possesses 79% of students who states having information about the subject while the Mathematics course had the worst rate - 3% of information. In conclusion, the majority of the students didn't receive information in the university although the majority which did receive are in the Nursing course. Therefore, based on these data, it's important to rethink education practices and knowledge propagation. It is also essential the university investment in means of transformation through strategies that can lead to heath promotion as well as the formation of citizen who can spread knowledge, besides the democratization of the access of information in universities.