From awareness to action: Health Belief Model-based educational intervention to improve breast self-examination practice among college teachers in Pakistan (CRCT)

Benazir Mahar; Malina Binti Osman; Fatimah Ahmad Fauzi

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0341804

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From awareness to action: Health Belief Model-based educational intervention to improve breast self-examination practice among college teachers in Pakistan (CRCT)

Benazir Mahar,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia
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Malina Binti Osman ,

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: malinaosman@upm.edu.my

Affiliation Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5591-3315

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Fatimah Ahmad Fauzi

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0073-8748

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From awareness to action: Health Belief Model-based educational intervention to improve breast self-examination practice among college teachers in Pakistan (CRCT)

Benazir Mahar,
Malina Binti Osman,
Fatimah Ahmad Fauzi

Published: January 29, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0341804

About the Authors

Benazir Mahar

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia

Malina Binti Osman

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: malinaosman@upm.edu.my

Affiliation Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5591-3315

Fatimah Ahmad Fauzi

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0073-8748

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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