A study to assess the effectiveness of planned teaching programme on prevention of cervical cancer among adult women in poonjeri village
International Journal of Development Research
A study to assess the effectiveness of planned teaching programme on prevention of cervical cancer among adult women in poonjeri village
Received 22nd July, 2017; Received in revised form 24th August, 2017; Accepted 17th September, 2017; Published online 10th October, 2017
Copyright ©2017, Divyabharathi et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Cervical cancer is the most common cause of death among women in developing countries despite the fact that cervical cancer is preventable. Cervical cancer ranks as the 1st most frequent cancer among women in India and the 1st most frequent cancer among women between 21 and 44 years of age. About 7.9% of women in the general population are estimated to harbor cervical HPV infection at a given time and 82.5% of invasive cervical cancers are attributed to HPVs. Hence researcher introduced self-instructional module to evaluate its effectiveness by using both urban and rural women, who followed different life style practices. To assess the pre and post intervention of knowledge, considered an evaluative approach by using quasi – experimental study one group pre and post test design. The study was conducted in Poonjeri is a rural area, which belongs to Thiruporur Block, Kanchipuram District. Sample size was 50 in the age group of 20 - 55years. In pre test the mean score of knowledge level is 10.6 and the standard deviation is 11.46. In the post test the mean score of knowledge level is 15.92 and the standard deviation is 2.95 which shows education is highly significant in improving knowledge.
