Knowledge assessment of breast self examination among B. Sc nursing students of selected nursing college

Mrs. Shikha Joshua

Volume : VIII, Issue : IV, April - 2019

Knowledge assessment of breast self examination among B. Sc nursing students of selected nursing college

Mrs. Shikha Joshua

Abstract :

A research was among B. Sc nursing students at selected nursing college of Indore. A pre–experimental one group pre–test and post–test research design was used in this study. The population comprised of 40 samples using purposive sampling. Data revealed that the mean posttest knowledge (17.55) was higher than mean pretest knowledge scores (12.85). And there is significant difference between pre–test and post–test at the level of (t = 10.58, P < 0.05). There is significant association between pretest knowledge score with demographic variables like family history of cancer, therefore H2 is accepted for this variable and rejected for other variables like age, educational status, previous knowledge of east self examination and source of information, chi–square test was applied .