Social Characteristics and BSE performance
The secondary goal of the study was to examine the relationship among age, marital status, education, income level, health insurance coverage BSE, recommendation by health care providers, self- and family history of breast disease, and their effect on BSE performance by AA women. table 1 summarize the demographic information. the women who of reported compliance to BSE is surprisingly high . Most participants (109,83.8%) reported practicing BSE within the past 12 months. Most participants and health insurance coverage for yearly physical and mammograms, 48.9% had health insurance, 99.2% has no personal history of breast cancer, and 61.8% had no family of breast cancer. Based on the results of the analyzed data, person's correlation revealed that there insurance, income, and BSE frequency at the 0.05 level of confidence for health insurance (r= .013,p=.887) and for income (r=.038,p=.673). As income increase, the BSE frequency participants decreases.