• Atencion primaria · Oct 2014

    [The social representation that adolescents from Jalisco, Mexico have of early detection of breast cancer].

    • Amparo Tapia Curiel, Martha Villaseñor Farías, Bertha Lidia Nuño Gutiérrez, Aída Araceli Rodríguez Carlos, Efraín Salas González, and José Luis López López.
    • Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Unidad de Investigación Epidemiológica y en Servicios de Salud del Adolescente, Tonalá, Jalisco, México; Universidad de Guadalajara, Centro Universitario en Ciencias de la Salud, Departamento de Salud Pública, Laboratorio de Salud Pública, Guadalajara, Jalisco, México. Electronic address: amparo.uiessa@gmail.com.
    • Aten Primaria. 2014 Oct 1; 46 (8): 408415408-15.

    PurposeTo describe the social representation that adolescents from Jalisco, Mexico, have of early detection of breast cancer.DesignQualitative cross, analytical interpretative and based on the theory of social representations. Non-probability sampling.LocationContact schools in basic education level of 7municipalities of the State of Jalisco, Mexico, through various government and educational institutions.ParticipantsA hundred thirty five schooled adolescents, men and women.MethodInterview with 12 focus group 8-12participants and 1 with 18participants. The interviews were transcribed in Atlas Ti program version 4.1 for a semiotic analysis to identify components of social representation.ResultsThe precocious detection linked itself to the decrease of deaths for cancer of breast, long treatments and mastectomy, but little coverage was perceived to the mammary health of the teenager. They refer as limiter elements of the precocious detection the aspects of kind, psychological and of access to the information and services of health; since facilitators there was mentioned the transition of the limiter elements to facilitators.ConclusionsA favorable panorama appears on the level of awareness of the teenagers on his mammary health, identifying as a sector highly sensitive to the information about cancer of breast and with disposition to effect actions of early detection; there are identified as important challenge the generation of campaigns, educational materials and spaces of health focused on the teenager.Copyright © 2013 Elsevier España, S.L.U. All rights reserved.

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