Table 4 Construct validity of the African Breast Cancer Screening Beliefs Questionnaire
From: Validation of the Breast Cancer Screening Beliefs Questionnaire among African Australian women
Attitudes towards general health check-ups | Knowledge and perceptions about breast cancer | Barriers to mammographic screening | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Original subscale | Psychological barriers | Practical barriers | ||||
N (%) | Mean (SD) | Mean (SD) | Mean (SD) | Mean (SD) | Mean (SD) | |
Education level | ||||||
Primary school | 20 (7.6) | 24.1 (15.9) | 25.0 (16.8) | 40.3 (17.1) | 33.8 (16.3) | 50.0 (24.7) |
Secondary school | 47 (17.8) | 26.9 (19.3) | 26.7 (18.6) | 51.5 (13.4) | 39.9 (16.1) | 68.9 (16.5) |
TAFE/college | 43 (16.3) | 40.1 (22.8) | 39.8 (22.8) | 55.1 (16.3) | 40.4 (21.0) | 75.6 (18.5) |
Tertiary or above | 154 (58.3) | 48.5 (26.5) | 54.1 (25.6) | 60.8 (15.9) | 48.1 (24.0) | 79.5 (12.0) |
P-value for trend | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 | 0.003 | <0.001 | |
Breast awareness | ||||||
At least once a month | 23 (8.7) | 42.7 (33.6) | 44.3 (30.3) | 63.5 (19.0) | 52.2 (26.3) | 80.4 (15.5) |
Once every few months | 92 (34.8) | 42.7 (24.9) | 47.2 (28.4) | 56.2 (15.2) | 40.5 (22.0) | 79.1 (10.7) |
Once a year | 30 (15.2) | 53.8 (23.6) | 57.3 (21.3) | 61.9 (14.1) | 50.0 (23.3) | 79.7 (10.5) |
Never | 109 (41.3) | 35.6 (24.0) | 38.0 (23.2) | 53.6 (17.6) | 43.8 (20.3) | 67.9 (21.5) |
P-value for trend | 0.068 | 0.032 | 0.028 | 0.748 | <0.001 | |
Clinical breast examination | ||||||
A year or less | 4 (1.5) | 71.9 (24.2) | 64.6 (12.5) | 72.5 (19.4) | 66.7 (28.1) | 81.3 (16.1) |
More than a year and less than two years | 16 (6.1) | 35.2 (24.2) | 52.0 (28.6) | 61.3 (21.2) | 47.4 (29.0) | 82.0 (11.2) |
Two to three years | 27 (10.2) | 52.1 (24.4) | 53.9 (23.8) | 61.1 (13.7) | 50.3 (22.5) | 77.3 (8.5) |
More than three years | 27 (10.2) | 51.9 (25.6) | 54.2 (26.9) | 53.7 (14.9) | 38.3 (19.2) | 76.9 (17.9) |
Never had one | 190 (72.0) | 38.3 (25.2) | 41.0 (25.7) | 55.7 (16.7) | 43.6 (21.5) | 73.3 (18.3) |
P-value for trend | 0.020 | 0.004 | 0.104 | 0.203 | 0.045 | |
Mammogram | ||||||
Once a year | 10 (3.8) | 58.8 (27.0) | 53.1 (26.4) | 59.0 (14.1) | 37.5 (23.0) | 91.3 (11.9) |
Once every two years | 113 (42.8) | 42.1 (25.3) | 42.2 (25.6) | 57.4 (14.1) | 43.6 (20.7) | 78.1 (12.3) |
Once every three years or more | 45 (17.0) | 46.9 (27.2) | 52.5 (26.8) | 53.0 (16.1) | 38.5 (20.4) | 74.7 (18.9) |
Never had one | 96 (36.4) | 36.3 (24.6) | 43.1 (26.2) | 57.3 (19.8) | 48.9 (24.0) | 68.8 (19.7) |
P-value for trend | 0.041 | 0.975 | 0.451 | 0.412 | <0.001 | |