A STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF STRUCTURED TEACHING PROGRAMME ON KNOWLEDGE REGARDING PREVENTION OF BREAST CANCER AMONG ADOLESCENT GIRLS IN SELECTED SCHOOLS

Abstract

Breast cancer is the second commonest cancer in women in India next to cervical cancer. Worldwide 1.05 Million new cases of breast cancer have been reported in the year 2011.Incidence of breast cancer in urban women is 18-25/1lakh, rural women is 8.6/1lakh. Due to lack of awareness, orthodoxy even after knowledge of breast lump patient comes very late for treatment. According to Indian Council of Medical Research, there is a significant increase in the incidence of breast cancer in various urban and rural population based registers between 1982 to 2005.Globally, breast cancer is the most common female cancer accounting for an estimated 1.4 million cases each year, with more than 4 lakhs deaths occurring in low and middle income countries. In India 8000 new cases per year. Hence the investigator taken up of “A study to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding prevention of breast cancer among adolescent girls in selected schools.” The discussion of the study is based on the OBJECTIVES 1). To assess the level of knowledge regarding prevention of breast cancer among adolescent girls. 2). To assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding prevention of breast cancer among adolescent girls.3). To associate the post-test level of knowledge regarding prevention of breast cancer with selected demographic variables among adolescent girls. The results shown that in pretest majority of the samples 30(50%) were having inadequate knowledge and 30(50%) were having moderate knowledge. In post-test majority 31 members (51%) were having moderate knowledge, 23 members (38%) were having adequate knowledge and 6 members (10%)are having inadequate knowledge. The pre-post-test knowledge mean were 10.9 and 19.21 respectively. The standard deviation was 4.43 and 2.65 respectively. The mean difference is 8.31. The calculated ‘t’ value is 3.64 is greater than tabulated value that is 2.00 and p valve < 0.05 shows that th