Abstract:
The purposes of this correlation research were to study breast cancer prevention behaviosr, perceived severity of breast cancer, perceived susceptibility of breast cancer, response efficacy toward breast cancer prevention behaviors, self-efficacy expectation of breast cancer prevention behavior and the factors related to study breast cancer prevention behaviosr among female teachers in provincial schools, central region. The study was conducted by random sampling with 365 female ages 25 - 59 years. The female teachers taught in Saraburiwitthayakhom school, Satrinonthaburi school, Kanaratbamrungpathumthani school,Satrinakhonsawan school and Kamphaengphetpittayakom school. Research instruments were consisted of six parts : (1)Demographic data (2)perceived severity of breast cancer (3)perceived susceptibility of breast cancer (4)response efficacy toward breast cancer prevention behaviors (5)self-efficacy expectation of breast cancer and (6)breast cancer prevention behavior. Content validity was examined by five experts and reliability was tested by using cronbachs alpha coefficient obtained at 0.77, 0.90, 0.80, 0.92 and 0.91 respectively. Pearsons product moment correlation was used in statistical analysis. The results of the study revealed that breast cancer prevention behavior of among female teacher in provincial schools, central region had medium level (Mean=3.42, SD = 0.62) and perceived severity of breast cancer, perceived susceptibility of breast cancer, response efficacy toward breast cancer prevention behaviors, self-efficacy expectation of breast cancer prevention behavior were positively related to breast cancer prevention behavior among female teachers in provincial schools, central region at the level of 0.05 ( r = 0.13, r = 0.13, r = 0.26, r = 0.16 respectively)