The Effectiveness of an Educational and Skill Training Program on Knowledge, Breast Self-examination Skills, and Satisfaction among Female Back-Office Personnel in a General Hospital

Abstract

Abstract:

This quasi-experimental study with a one-group pretest-posttest design aimed to evaluate the effects of an educational and skill training program on knowledge, breast selfexamination skills, and satisfaction among female back-office personnel in a general hospital.The program included teaching about breast cancer and self-examination, demonstration, and return demonstration with the breast self-examination simulator model. Seventy-eight female participants in the back office were enrolled by purposive sampling. Research tools comprised questionnaires to elicit baseline characteristics and knowledge about breast cancer, a checklist of breast self-examination, and an evaluation form of satisfaction with the educational program.Baseline characteristics were analyzed using descriptive statistics. The percentage of accuracy between pre and post-intervention for each item of knowledge and skills on breast selfexamination was compared using Pearson’s chi-squared test or Fisher’s exact test. Their magnitudes of difference were estimated using quantile regression. Satisfaction with this training was also evaluated and described. Results of the study showed a significant increase in both the median score of breast cancer knowledge and the median score of skill performance of breast self-examination after training. Most participants were satisfied with the program from the high to the highest level. Hence, the teaching, demonstration and return demonstration techniques in this educational and skill training program can be employed to promote breast self-examination among female personnel in the back office.
Keywords: Breast self-examination, Demonstration, Female back-office personnel, Return demonstration, Teaching