Breast cancer awareness among nurses in male medical ward and female employer in the financial section at Hospital Queen Elizabeth, Kota Kinabalu / Dana Merlyne Robert Suimin

This study was conducted to see the level of breast cancer awareness and to see whether there is significant differences in level of awareness between nurses in Male Medical Ward and female employees in the Financial Section and whether there are significant differences in level of awareness across age categories, marital status and education level. The samples of 74 respondents from Male Medical Ward and Financial Section are selected to answer the questionnaire in this research. To analyze the data, this research used Descriptive statistics, Mann- Whiteny Test and Kruskall-Wallis Test. The research study found that the level of awareness among nurses in Male Medical Ward is high compare to female employees in Financial Section and there are significant differences level of awareness between section and across age categories, marital status and education level of the respondent.