A Study To Evaluate The Effectiveness Of An Educational Intervention Program On Knowledge Regarding Breast Self Examination Among School Teachers In Selected Schools, Gadag

A breast self-exam for breast awareness is a check of your breasts that you do on your own. To help increase your breast awareness, Most breast changes detected during a self-exam for breast awareness aren't something serious. There is a need to improve knowledge about breast self examination. How it helpful for early detection of breast changes for the improver surveillance of the women, hence the study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of an Educational Intervention Program on Knowledge regarding breast self examination among 40 School teachers in Selected schools, Gadag”. The research design used for the present study was pre- experimental: one group pre-test, post-test design. Non- Probability, purposive sampling technique was used to select the sample. The data was collected by using structured knowledge questionnaire. The result of the study reviles that In the pre-test, majority of subjects 28 (70%) had average knowledge, 08 (20%) had good knowledge and 04 (10%) had poor knowledge. Where as in post-test all 40 (100%) had good knowledge and none of them had average and poor knowledge regarding breast self examination. There was a significant gain in knowledge of school teachers who were exposed to the educational intervention program i.e. 45.97%. The paired‘t’ value (tcal =26.516*) at p<0.05 level of significance for knowledge proved that the stated hypothesis i.e. the mean post-test knowledge scores of school teachers in Selected schools who were exposed to the educational intervention program will be significantly higher than the pre-test knowledge scores at 0.05 level of significance. The study Concludes that the study concludes that Educational Intervention Program was more effective for school teachers to increase and update their knowledge regarding breast self examination.