Breast cancer screening practices and associated factors among Chinese-Australian women living in Sydney: A cross-sectional survey study.
Lei Wang, Lynette Mackenzie, Zakia Hossain
PMID 35106873WHAT IT FOUND
Among 115 Chinese-Australian women in Sydney, 64.2% had a mammogram in the past 2 years and 58.3% had a breast exam in the past year.
Longer residence was linked to screening, while pain and embarrassment were common mammogram barriers.
Key findings
0164.2% of the women had a mammogram in the last two years, and 58.3% had a clinical breast examination in the last year.
02Longer residence in Australia was the strongest predictor of both having a clinical breast examination and having a mammogram.
03Participants reported discomfort (56%), irritation (32%), pain (59%), and embarrassment (29%) with mammograms.
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What it does not show
The study used convenience and snowball sampling, so the women may not represent all Chinese-Australian women in Sydney. Screening history, income, and other details were self-reported, so they may be overestimated or underestimated. The survey was long, so some participants may have been too tired to answer all items carefully. The study measured associations at one time point, so it cannot show why women did or did not screen.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read these associations as evidence that longer residence, income, religion, or beliefs caused higher screening uptake. This was a cross-sectional convenience survey of 115 women using self-reported screening history, so it cannot show cause or effect.