The relationship between Health Belief Model (HBM) and Breast Self Examination (BSE) awareness, knowledge female student: UiTM Kedah / Mohd Azri Abdul Rahim and Nor Adlyia Mohd Yusof

Breast Cancer is one of the leading causes of women death in Malaysia. Early detection methods such as BSE play an important role in reduction of death for breast cancer as the primary prevention strategies. BSE is a self screening method that should be taught at the early ages of women to aware them about the importance of early detection of breast cancer and it can be performed without assistance of health professionals and requires no equipment. However, most women do not perform a regular BSE which is a relatively effective and inexpensive way to prevent the breast cancer death and morbidity. Thus, to gain the women awareness and knowledge of BSE, HBM been utilized as a tool to predicting BSE knowledge which highlighting four psychological dimensions which are, perceived susceptibility, perceived benefits, perceived severity and perceived barriers. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship of HBM and BSE knowledge and to quantify the most significant dimensions of HBM lead to BSE knowledge among female student in UiTM Kedah.