Knowledge and Experience of Women with Breast Cancer Receiving Chemotherapy in Selected Public Hospitals, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2021.
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2021-05
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Addis Ababa University
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Background: Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide, in 2018 2.1million new cases are diagnosed. In Ethiopia due to the increasing awareness of breast cancer patients are taking chemotherapy in different parts of the country but patient‟s knowledge of chemotherapy and experience of chemotherapy has not assessed very well and this study will try to assess patients‟ knowledge about chemotherapy.
Objective: the objective of the study is to assess the knowledge and experience of women with breast cancer receiving chemotherapy in selected public hospitals Addis Ababa Ethiopia, 2021.
Methods: Institutional based cross-sectional study was conducted and data collected from TASH and SPHMMC from February 8 to March 1, 2020. Data was entered in to Epi-data version of 4.5 and export to SPSS version 20.0 descriptive statics such as frequency, percentages, mean and standard deviation were done and displayed in tables. Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis was employed.
Result: the study involved 250 participants. The mean age of the respondents were 43.35 .Of the total 135 (54%) respondent‟s were not knowledgeable and 115(46%) were knowledgeable. Age less than 45 years Age >45 years and patients who lived in Addis Ababa were associated to higher knowledge. Respondents took chemotherapy fourth to sixth cycle patients and who are currently single associated to worst experience and the distance time it takes to get to the hospital when it is three to six hours were associated to tolerable experience.
Conclusion and recommendation: The study revealed that more than half of the participants were not knowledgeable and more than half of the participants had worst experience. Hence health care providers should provide information about chemotherapy to their patients and should teach how to manage the possible side effects
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Breast cancer, knowledge, experience