Effectiveness of video assisted teaching programe on breast self examination

Breast Cancer is the most common cause of cancer death among women worldwide.. Breast Self Examination is one of the important steps for identifying breast tumors at an early stage. It is ideal, safe, effective and cost free method which can be done. This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of video assisted teaching programme on Breast Self examination among women. One group pretest and Posttest design was selected to determine the effectiveness of education. A Convenient Sampling technique was adopted to select 50 samples. The Knowledge Questionnaire was adopted for collecting the data. A Video Assisted teaching Programme regarding Breast Self Examination was developed and imparted knowledge to womens. The result shown for the Knowledge score regarding Breast Self Examinationwas improved after education.