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KMID : 0606420100160020105
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Korean Journal of Women Health Nursing
2010 Volume.16 No. 2 p.105 ~ p.115
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The Effects of Breast Self-examination Program Enriched Environmentally among Healthy Women
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Park Kyung-Yeon
Kim So-Hee
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Abstract
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of an environmental enrichment program on barrier, benefit, confidence, and compliance of breast self-examination in women at 3 months after instruction.
Methods: Nonequivalent control group pretest-posttest design was conducted among 62 healthy women. Data were collected through the self-reported questionnaires from December 2008 to March 2009. Women were assigned to one of two treatment groups: (a) no-support of environmental enrichment with the instruction control group; (b) the support of environmental enrichment with the instruction experimental group. All women received the same instruction on breast self-examination once a week for two weeks. Data were analyzed with paired t-test, McNemar test and ANCOVAs of controlling for age run using SPSS/WIN 17.0.
Results: The experimental group was significantly lower than control group on perceived barrier (F=5.91, p=.02) and higher than control group on compliance of breast self-examination (F=4.57, p=.04) after environmental enrichment program. However the environmental enrichment program did not make significant differences on benefit (F=0.01, p=.91) and confidence (F=0.77, p=.38).
Conclusion: Findings suggest that the environmental enrichment should be needed to support women’s breast self-examination and expanded for compliance of breast self-examination to promote the secondary prevention of women breast cancer.
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KEYWORD
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Environment, Breast self-examination, Barrier, Confidence, Compliance
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