A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Video-assisted Teaching Programme on Knowledge Regarding Breast Self-examination among Adolescent Girls

Abstract

Introduction: Breast self-examination may be a perfect, safe, effective, and cost-free method which can be done by every woman at her leisure with little training. It is definitely detected by adolescent girls in order that the priority is given to teaching all girls how and when to examine their breasts. Regular breast self-examination can identify any abnormal changes in the breasts to determine a good prognosis. If the young groups of girls are targeted with accurate information and encouragement, they are going to learn to look at themselves and detect every minute changes early in their later life. Methods: The research approach adopted within the present study was an evaluative approach, and the research design was one group pretest and posttest design which belongs to pre-experimental design. The purposive non-sampling technique was wont to select the sample. The sample size was 40 adolescent girls aged 15 to 17 years. Data were collected by using a structured knowledge questionnaire schedule through multiple-choice questions and a video-assisted teaching programme was intervened, again after a gap of seven days, a posttest was conducted with the same tool. Results: The pretest mean score was 13.81 (S.D. = 4.216) and in the posttest, it was 27.71 (S.D. = 7.894). The mean posttest knowledge score was higher than the mean pretest score which indicated an improvement in the knowledge level of the respondents after the video-assisted teaching programme. The mean difference of (13.900), SD = 3.678 of overall knowledge with paired ‘t’ value (23.901). There is no significant relationship between age, education, residential area area, type of family, family monthly income, and sources of information regarding BSE with posttest knowledge test scores of adolescent girls regarding breast self-examination.