variable | Response | Frequency (n = yes = 140) | % |
Practice BSE | Yes | 140 | 34.8 |
| no | 262 | 65.2 |
Period during which I do BSE (if Practice BSE = yes) | Before menses | 11 | 7.9 |
| 1 - 7 days after menses | 24 | 17.2 |
| Anytime | 103 | 73.6 |
| During menses | 2 | 1.4 |
Age at start of BSE | Before 19 | 43 | 30.7 |
| 19 - 20 | 31 | 22.1 |
| After 20 | 52 | 37.1 |
| forgotten | 14 | 10.0 |
*Positions in which I do BSE | Standing, showering | 88 | 62.8 |
| Lying down | 64 | 45.7 |
| In front mirror | 47 | 33.6 |
| others | 20 | 5.0 |
| All three positions | 37 | 18.4 |
Part of hand used in BSE | Palm only | 19 | 13.6 |
| Fingers only | 73 | 52.1 |
| Palm + at least 3 fingers | 39 | 27.8 |
| Palm and 2 fingers | 9 | 6.4 |
Pattern of palpation | Circular | 71 | 50.7 |
| Vertical | 10 | 7.1 |
| Quadrant by quadrant | 12 | 8.6 |
| No specific pattern | 47 | 33.5 |
Overall practice | Poor | 288 | 71.6 |
| Insufficient | 80 | 19.9 |
| Moderate | 29 | 7.2 |
| Good | 5 | 1.2 |