Abstract: Awareness of breast self-examination among nursing students is very crucial nowadays because nurses play a vital role in bringing changes and creating awareness in community and susceptible group, with this health of student nurses and nurses is also important. As breast cancer is commonly seen in females to prevent this & early case detection & treatment breast self-examination awareness is must.
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: To Assess Effectiveness of Planned Teaching Program on Knowledge Regarding Breast Self-Examination Among Nursing Students of Sumandeep Nursing College.
MATERIAL AND METHODS: The Pre-Experimental design approach: A Pre-test, Post-test design is used in this study on 60 nursing students by simple random sampling technique.
RESULTS: The findings indicate variable such as family type(x2=20.176) is found to be significant at 0.05 level of significance. While other variables are non-significant. Thus it can be interpreted that there is significance association between pre-test levels of knowledge among B.sc nursing students with their selected demographic variable
CONCLUSION: According post-test knowledge score 80% have good knowledge and 20% have average knowledge and no one have poor knowledge which was higher than pre-test knowledge score range. According to pre-test 68.3% were having knowledge level as average, while 28.3% had found with good knowledge has level and other 3.3% found with poor knowledge. The mean post-test knowledge score (17.6333) also was higher than the mean pre-test score (12.7833). There was significant difference in knowledge scores regarding breast self-examination among 1st year B.sc nursing students Sumandeep Nursing College, Pipariya, Waghodia, Vadodara. Thus H1 is accepted.
Keywords: Breast Self-Examination, Planned Teaching Program, Non-Communicable Disease, Nursing Students, Knowledge, Pre-test , Post-test score.
Title: Effectiveness of Planned Teaching Program Regarding Breast Self-Examination in Early Detection of Breast Cancer among Nursing Students of Sumandeep Nursing College Pipariya, Waghodia, Vadodara
Author: Ms. Gagan Sharma, Mr. Ismail P.A., Shraddha Patel, Pathak Rajat, Shivangi Patel, Priya Patel
International Journal of Healthcare Sciences
ISSN 2348-5728 (Online)
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