Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women worldwide. Primary prevention should be given the highest priority in the fight against the disease. Breast Self-Examination (BSE) is a simple, cost effective non-invasive screening method. It is important for early detection of breast lumps. It is a useful self-care activity of all adult women over age of 20 to perform it monthly. Our research purpose is to find out the effectiveness of Breast Self-Examination in prevention of breast cancer. The objective of the study to assess the effectiveness of information booklet regarding Breast Self-Examination. We have used a pre-experimental research design method to describe the effectiveness of breast self-examination among girls of 10th to 12th class of selected school of Lucknow. After obtaining a written consent from girls a demographic data sheet was given to the girls followed by structured knowledge questionnaire regarding BSE to assess their knowledge. After filling the questionnaire girls were provided with Information Booklet regarding Breast Self-examination. Posttest was done on the 7th day. The results shows that majority of the sample are of the age group 15- 16 year(70%), studying at 10th standard(55%), belong to Hindus(90%), majority of parents had no formal education(35%), majority of mother are housewife(85%), majority of father had other occupations(80%), most of the parents are single parents(45%), majority of samples got information from other source of information(30%), have no previous knowledge regarding BSE(100%), have not practiced BSE(100%).Information booklet was effective in improving the knowledge regarding breast self-examination and there was no significant association between pretest knowledge score and selected demographic variables.
Breast self-examination, Information booklet, Knowledge
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