EFFECTIVENESS ON CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAMME ON BREAST SELF EXAMINATION AND KNOWLEDGE ON WARNING SIGN ON BREAST CANCER AMONG WOMEN'S

Abstract: Breast cancer (BC) is the commonest malignancy among women globally. Breast cancer has ranked number one cancer among Indian females with age adjusted rate as high as 25.8 per 100,000 women and mortality 12.7 per 100,000 women. A large number of factors are identified as risk factors for breast cancer. Aim; To determine the effectiveness on capacity building programme on breast self examination and knowledge on warning sign on breast cancer among women's. Methodology: Quasi experimental research design was adopted for the current study to assess the effectiveness on capacity building programme on breast self-examination and knowledge on warning sign on breast cancer among women's at selected setting. The samples who met the inclusion criteria 60 women’s were selected by using non probability purposive sampling technique. The demographic and pretest knowledge warning sign of breast cancer and breast self-examination was collected by using a self-structured questionnaire. Followed by capacity building programme was conducted through video assisted teaching and self-breast examination demonstration performed by researcher to simulator. Post test was conducted same tools by 8th day. The Collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. Results: The pretest mean score of knowledge was 7.72±2.43 and the posttest mean score was 17.85±2.29. The calculated paired ‘t’ test value of t=21.547 was found to be statistically highly significant at p