eng Oriental Scientific Publishing Company Biosciences Biotechnology Research Asia 0973-1245 2016-06-18 12 Spl.Edn.1 209 215 10.13005/bbra/1625 12732 article Motahare Pilehvarzadeh 1 Hakime Hoosien Rezie 2 Moohamad Reza Aflatoonian 3 Foozieh Rafeti 4 Fatemeh Mashayekhi 5 Master of Nursing education,Lecturer of Nursing Midwifery Faculty, Jiroft university of Medical Sciences, jiroft, Iran. Master of Nursing education , Lecturer of Nursing , Midwifery Faculty, Kerman university of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran. Instructor, Research Center for Tropical and Infectious Diseases, Kerman University of Medical Sciences,Kerman, Iran. MSc Psychiatric Nursing, Lecturer,,Jiroft university of Medical Sciences, jiroft, Iran MSc Intensive and Critical Care Nursing, Lecturer Faculty Member of Jiroft University of Medical Sciences, Jiroft, Iran Breast cancer (BC) is a major health problem on the rise, and breast selfexamination (BSE) plays a role in early diagnosis of this cancer and decreasing the subsequent mortality rate; in addition, the importance of knowledge and attitude of women towards this matter encouraged the conduction of this study to investigate the knowledge and attitude of the women, visiting the health centers in Jiroft City, towards breast self-examination. This is a descriptive-analytical study, in which the knowledge and attitude of 200 women visiting health centers in the City of Jiroft, towards breast selfexamination were investigated. They were selected using convenience sampling method. Included a questionnaire containing personal-social information, as well as some information about the knowledge and attitude of women towards BSE. For data analysis, SPSS and descriptive-inferential statistics were used. The mean age of the respondents was 43/6±5/29, ranging from 20 to 51 years. The present study showed that women obtained only 34% and 41% of total knowledge and attitude scores, respectively. In addition, research findings demonstrated a significant relationship between knowledge and attitude (p<0.01). In comparison of mean scores of demographic information, significant differences were observed in age groups (p<0.05), educational level, educational level of partner, and carrier (p<0.01). There was also a significant difference in the scores of women’s attitude regarding education level, educational level of partners, carrier (p<0.01), and previous information (p<0.05). Findings of this study showed that women’s knowledge and attitude towards BSE were not satisfactory. Therefore, training programs for encouraging women to perform BSE correctly is recommended. https://www.biotech-asia.org/vol12_nospl_edn1/knowledge-and-attitude-of-women-about-breast-self-examination/ Knowledge; Attitude; Breast Self-Examination; Screening