Effectiveness of Motivational Programme on Knowledge regarding Brest Self Examination among Self Help Groups in selected area in Mangalore

Every year we celebrate the women's day. Inspiring the women of today to stride ached in life. In India, women are becoming more aware of their health status as a result of modern education, electronic, print media and health agencies. While women have made progress in most of the field but still, she tends to neglect her own health. Though in the present age women are aware of their problems, the readiness to seek help from health personal is hindered by economic constraints, social stigma and rigid superstitious beliefs regarding health problems. Hence it is necessary to provide information to women regarding their health problems through in the available community resources. Breast cancer is one of the commonest causes of death in many developed countries in the middle age women and is becoming frequent in the developing countries too. Screening for early detection and diagnosis of diseases and health condition in an important public health need. Breast self- examination (BSE) is a process where by women examine their breasts regularly to detect any abnormal swelling or lumps in order to seek promote medical attention. Breast self -examination (BSE) is a safe, effective easy, private and an economical screening method involves no cost or require any specific equipment in the early detection of breast cancer. Women aged 20 years and older are recommended to perform BSE. Prevention or identification of breast cancer at an early stage is very importance in saving lives as well as improving the quality of life. Prevention is better than cure. The present investigation was aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of structured motivational programme on knowledge regarding Breast self-examination among women. The research design used in the study was pre – experimental one group pre-test post-test and non-probability convenient sampling technique was used to draw sample. The data was collected from 43 women using the structured knowledge questionnaire and motivational programme regarding BSE was conducted and post-test was administered after 7days using the same structured knowledge questionnaire to find out the effectiveness of motivational programme. The results revealed that the overall mean percentage knowledge score in the pre-test and post-test were 27.1% and 63.1% respectively. The statistical paired ‘t’ test (t= 20.24) was greater than the table value at 0.05 level of significance which shows that there is significance difference between the pre-test and post-test level of knowledge. There is no significant association between pre-test knowledge scores and selected socio demographic variables such as age, religion, educational status, occupation, location, marital status, income and previous information and examination of the breast.