Screening of Breast among Women: A Cross-Sectional Study in Nepal

Table 4

Relationship between the complaints and sociodemographic and characteristics of the respondents.

Variable	Normal	Abnormal	value
Age in years
≤40 years	41 (83.7)	8 (16.3)	0.9
>40 years	43 (84.3)	8 (15.7)
Religion
Hindu	49 (79)	13 (21.)	0.08
Others	35 (92.1)	3 (7.9)
Occupation
Housewife	31 (81.6)	7 (18.4)	0.7
Farmer	40 (87.0)	6 (13.6)
Others	13 (81.3)	3 (18.8)
Ethnicity
Brahmin	12 (70.6)	5 (29.4)	0.4
Chhetri	16 (84.2)	3 (15.8)
Janajati	50 (87.7)	7 (12.3)
Others	6 (85.7)	1 (14.3)
Education
Illiterate	46 (85.2)	8 (14.8)	0.2
Primary	21 (91.3)	2 (8.7)
Midschool	9 (81.1)	2 (18.2)
High school	2 (50)	2 (50)
+2 and above	8 (66.7)	4 (33.3)
Marital status
Married	76 (85.4)	13 (14.6)	0.3
Unmarried	3 (60.0)	2 (40.0)
Widow	5 (83.3)	1 (16.7)
Smoking
Yes	25 (89.3)	3 (10.7)	0.3
No	59 (81.9)	13 (18.1)
Alcohol
Yes	20 (83.3)	4 (16.7)	0.9
No	64 (84.2)	12 (15.8)
Age at first menstruation
≤13	29 (82.9)	6 (17.1)	0.8
>13	55 (84.6)	10 (15.4)
Age at first marriage
≤20	65 (81.3)	15(18.8)	0.048
>20	16 (100)	0 (0)
Sexually active
Yes	44 (83.0)	9 (17)	0.7
No	40 (85.1)	7 (14.9)
Age at first sex
≤20	70 (81.4)	16 (18.6)	1.02
>20	12 (100)	0 (0)
Number of pregnancy
≤2	34 (91.9)	3 (8.1)	0.045
>2	48 (78.7)	13 (21.3)
Number of children
≤2	36 (85.7)	6 (14.3)	0.6
>2	46 (82.1)	10 (17.9)
Comorbid
Yes	23 (79.3)	6 (20.7)	0.4
No	61 (85.9)	10 (14.1)
Menstruation
Regular	26 (81.3)	6 (18.8)	0.6
Other	58 (85.3)	10 (14.7)
Contraception
Yes	27 (75)	9 (18)	0.049
No	56 (88.9)	7 (11.1)

The bold values are statistically significant data.