ABSTRACT

This research was carried out to evaluate the eff ect of education given by nursing students on womens’ knowledge and practice of breast cancer- breast self examination in a public training center.

The research was conducted on 93 women who attended a public training center and reached on pretest and posttest. Data was collected by individual information form and breast cancer-BSE knowledge test. Before the education program has started, breast cancer-BSE knowledge test was applied as pre-test. Then education related to breast cancer-BSE was applied to women. Breast cancer-BSE knowledge test was applied secondly, and education was repeated. Breast cancer-BSE knowledge test was applied as posttest four weeks later than last education and it was evaluated the BSE practice of women.

It was found that the average point of pretest of women was 4.48, average point of second test was 5.57 and average point of posttest was 7.27. There was a statistically signifi cant diff erence in between both the average point of breast cancer-BSE knowledge pretest and second test and between second test and post test (p<0.001). 4.3 % of women said that performed regularyl BSE before education, it was elavated to 51.6 % after education (p<0.05). Conclusions: Knowledge and practice on breast cancer-BSE of women was insuffi cient. However, it was improve knowledge and practice on Breast cancer-BSE of women after education.