Factors associated with breast cancer awareness and breast self-examination in Fiji and Kashmir India – a cross-sectional study

Table 4 Factors associated with performing breast self-examination (BSE) ^a

	======= Fiji ^b =======		======= Kashmir ^b =======
	p	Adjusted odds ratio (95% CI)	p	Adjusted odds ratio (95% CI)
Increasing age (one decade)	5.3 × 10⁻¹⁶	1.4 (1.3–1.5)	0.61	0.95 (0.77–1.2)
Married or engaged	0.065	1.2 (0.99–1.5)	0.0078	2.3 (1.2–4.2)
Have some education	0.88	1.1 (0.42–2.8)	0.71	1.1 (0.62–2.0)
Is a smoker	0.26	1.2 (0.90–1.5)	0.77	0.91 (0.48–1.7)
Had breast cancer before	0.89	1.0 (0.67–1.6)	0.84	1.3 (0.078–23)
Family history of breast cancer	0.58	1.1 (0.82–1.4)	0.16	2.3 (0.72–7.3)
Never visit a doctor	8.3 × 10⁻¹²	0.40 (0.31–0.52)	0.41	1.5 (0.60–3.6)
Model validation
n	1913		374
Nagelkerke R square	0.091		0.036
AUC	7.8 × 10^− 29	0.65 (0.62–0.67)	0.0024	0.60 (0.54–0.66)

^a Breast self-examination is defined as the woman states she does a regular examination of any interval compared to those who don’t. The frequency of this endpoint is presented in Table 2 and is the inverse of the row “Breast self-examination (BSE) - Never”
^b Multivariate model for Fiji and Kashmir is multivariate logistic regression

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