Effectiveness of Health Education With Media Leaflet on Knowledge and Attitude of Self-Breast Examination in Young Woman

摘要

Breast self-examination is an activity carried out by a woman to detect abnormalities in the breast. Breast self-examination activities should be done once every month, for women who still experience regular menstruation, it is advisable to do breast self-examination on the 7th day to the 10th day of menstruation is calculated from the first day of menstruation. Health education using audiovisuals or lectures has often been done, whereas individual counseling in the form of leaflets is rarely done so this research needs to be done. The purpose of this study was to determine the Effectiveness of Health Education with Media Leaflets on Knowledge and Attitudes of Breast Self-Examination (BSE) in young women. The method used was pre-experimental with one group pretest-posttest design. The sampling technique used incidental sampling of 76 respondents. Bivariate analysis techniques using Wilcoxon. Wilcoxon's statistical test results produce a significance value of p-value between the effectiveness of health education with media leaflets on BSE knowledge of 0,000 with p-value 0,000 <0.05 and BSE attitude of 0,000 with a p-value of 0,000 <0.05. The conclusion is that there are statistically and clinically significant differences between BSE knowledge and attitudes before and after health education with media leaflets.