A Study to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on Knowledge Regarding Prevention of Cervical Cancer among Menopausal Women in Selected Rural Area of Moradabad

The study aims at evaluating the effectiveness of structure teaching programme on knowledge regarding prevention and early detection of cervical cancer among menopausal women of rural area. Research design used was pre - experimental one group pre - test post - test design, and non - probability purposive sampling technique was used for sample selection. The sample was selected from the selected rural area Ruppur Moradabad. The samples consisted of 100 menopausal women of rural area who fulfilled the criteria. The tool consisted of II sections: I: consist of demographic data which consists of questions seeking information on the background data of menopausal women, section II consists of a structured questionnaire and Structure teaching programme on cervical cancer. The reliability of the tools was done by split half method and was found to be 0.81 and paired t - test was used to test the effectiveness and analysis SD=1.004, t=161.72 and p value is 0.05. After comparing between pre - test and post - test knowledge and practice scores it was proven that there was increase in knowledge regarding prevention and early detection of cervical cancer among menopausal women of rural area. Thus, it can be concluded that structured teaching programme was effective in improving the knowledge in menopausal women of rural area.