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It was developed in 2010 by the UK cancer research center, "King's College London" and "University College London" to raise breast cancer awareness. In our country, the Turkish validity and reliability study of the scale was conducted by Baş and Ursavaş (2022). The scale consists of a total of 13 items to determine breast cancer awareness, including symptoms (11 items), frequency of breast examination (1 item) and breast cancer age (1 item). The scale has no cut-off point. Answering 5 of the symptoms correctly is coded as 1 point, a 70-year-old woman is coded as 1 point, and breast examination once a month is coded as 1. Incorrect answers are worth 0 points. Scoring is between 0-3. Cronbach's alpha value of the scale was found to be 0.89. As the score obtained from the scale increases, breast cancer awareness increases (Baş and Ursavaş, 2022).
Comprehensive Breast Cancer Information was developed by Stager in 1993 (Stager, 1993). The scale included a total of 20 knowledge questions. Scale; It is answered as True or False. There were 8 correct and 12 incorrect statements in the questions. The alpha value of the general knowledge dimension was .60; The alpha value of the treatability subscale was found to be .62 and the total of the scale was found to be .71 (Stager, 1993). The scale was adapted to Turkish by Başak (2015). Başak is the sub-dimension and total Cronbach's alpha coefficient of the scale; .65, .50 for General Knowledge, Treatability, and Scale Total scores, respectively. and found .67.