Effect of Video Assisted Teaching on Knowledge and Attitude Regarding Prevention and Early Detection of Cervical Cancer among Housewives

Cervical cancer is the most common cancer in woman worldwide. Through proper screening this cancer can be prevented in its early stage. The study was conducted to assess the effect of video assisted teaching on knowledge and attitude regarding prevention and early detection of cervical cancer among housewives of selected area under CHC Palathara, Kollam. The objectives were to assess, correlate the pre and post interventional knowledge and attitude and find out association of the pre and post interventional knowledge and attitude on prevention and early detection of cervical cancer with selected demographic variables of housewives. The method used in the study is pre experimental one group pretest posttest design. Majority (66.67%) of the housewives had inadequate and 33.33% had moderately adequate pre interventional knowledge and none had adequate knowledge. Following the video assisted teaching the knowledge and attitude of the housewives were assessed after one week. Majority (97%) of the housewives gained adequate knowledge and 3% still had moderately adequate knowledge. Assessment of the pre interventional level of attitude revealed that majority of the housewives, 63.33% had unfavourable attitude and 36.67% had neutral attitude. After the intervention assessment revealed that majority 96.67% of the housewives gained favourable attitude and 3.33% gained moderate attitude. The difference between pre and post interventional scores of knowledge and attitude were significant. There was a positive correlation of knowledge with attitude. When associated with selected demographic variables, pre interventional knowledge had association with education and pre interventional attitude had association with family income and previous exposure to information. From the results, it was concluded that the intervention was effective. However, housewives need constant reinforcement for the uptake of screening measures. So, nurses have a key role to improve knowledge and attitude of the community towards the screening programme