International Journal of Healthcare Sciences ISSN 2348-5728 (Online) Vol. 10, Issue 2, pp: (19-25), Month: October 2022 - March 2023, Available at: www.researchpublish.com
EFFECTIVENESS ON CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAMME ON BREAST SELF EXAMINATION AND KNOWLEDGE ON WARNING SIGN ON BREAST CANCER AMONG WOMEN'S *1Dr. G. Bhuvaneswari, 2 S. Rashika, 3J. Cathrin Dept.of Community Health Nursing, Saveetha College of Nursing, SIMATS, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7185104
Published Date: 11-October-2022
Abstract: Breast cancer (BC) is the commonest malignancy among women globally. Breast cancer has ranked number one cancer among Indian females with age adjusted rate as high as 25.8 per 100,000 women and mortality 12.7 per 100,000 women. A large number of factors are identified as risk factors for breast cancer. Aim; To determine the effectiveness on capacity building programme on breast self examination and knowledge on warning sign on breast cancer among women's. Methodology: Quasi experimental research design was adopted for the current study to assess the effectiveness on capacity building programme on breast self-examination and knowledge on warning sign on breast cancer among women's at selected setting. The samples who met the inclusion criteria 60 women’s were selected by using non probability purposive sampling technique. The demographic and pretest knowledge warning sign of breast cancer and breast self-examination was collected by using a self-structured questionnaire. Followed by capacity building programme was conducted through video assisted teaching and selfbreast examination demonstration performed by researcher to simulator. Post test was conducted same tools by 8 th day. The Collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. Results: The pretest mean score of knowledge was 7.72±2.43 and the posttest mean score was 17.85±2.29. The calculated paired ‘t’ test value of t=21.547 was found to be statistically highly significant at p<0.001 level. Conclusion: The capacity building programme was more effective method to create the awareness on breast self-examination and warning sign of breast cancer among all women’s. Keywords: capacity building programme, Breast self- examination, Warning Sign, Breast cancer.
1. INTRODUCTION Breast cancer (BC) is the commonest malignancy among women globally.1 A large number of factors are identified as risk factors for breast cancer. Late age at first pregnancy (greater than 30 years), single child, late age at menopause are some of them. A high fat diet is also identified as a risk factor. Physical activity is found to be protective for breast cancer. The sudden changes towards affluent life styles have reduced the physical activities to a minimum and increased the consumption of diets rich in fat. High fat diets during the pubertal age and obesity in the post menopausal age are risk factors for breast cancer.2 Worldwide, female breast cancer has now surpassed lung cancer as the most commonly diagnosed cancer. An estimated 2,261,419 new cases were diagnosed in women across the world in 2020. More women in the United States are diagnosed with breast cancer than any other type of cancer, besides skin cancer.
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