“Effect of QR Coded Self-Instructional Module (Sim) on Knowledge Regarding Breast Self-Examination Among Womens in Selected Rural Area.”

Abstract

Background: Every year International Womens Day is celebrated to inspire the women to stride ahead in life. While women had made progress in most of the field still, she tend to inexplicably neglect her own health.

Aim: to assess the effect of QR coded Self-Instructional Module (SIM) on knowledge regarding Breast Self-Examination among women in selected rural area.

Material and method: The research method adopted for the present study was pre-experimental one group pretest post-test research design with quantitative and evaluative approach. Convenient sampling technique was used to select 100 women from rural area. Tool consisted of 2 sections. Section I included demographic variables and section II included structured questionnaire. Data collection was done from 28th March 2024 to 4th April 2024.

Result: The sample distribution showed that out of 100 samples, 30% were from the age group of 31-35 years of age, 37% of them had secondary education, 86% of them were Hindu by religion, 95% of them were married & 36% of them had monthly income below Rs. 10,000/-. The data analysis related to level of exixting knowledge showed that, in pretest 37% of women had poor knowledge, 59% of them had average knowledge, 3% them had good knowledge and 1% of them had excellent knowledge. In Post-test, 96% women had excellent knowledge and 3% woman had good knowledge.

Conclusion: This study concluded that the SIM regarding Breast Self-Examination was effective among women.