The Effect of Breast Cancer Screening Training

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The lack of knowledge of women on breast cancer and health literacy poses a major obstacle to people's breast cancer screening behaviors and beliefs. In order to increase social sensitivity and awareness on this issue; In particular, it is important to research, examine and examine how the municipalities and their employees, who are representatives of the society, evaluate breast cancer screening studies. The aim of our project is to evaluate the effect of breast cancer screening training given to women working in the municipality on health literacy, breast cancer screening belief and behavior. This study will be conducted in a randomized-controlled experimental design with women (n=120) working in a municipality in Istanbul Province between November 2022 and November 2023. Data will be obtained face-to-face using the Participant Information Form, the Health Literacy Scale and the Breast Cancer Screening Beliefs Scale. The women in the experimental group (n=60) will be given 16 hours of breast cancer screening training, two days a week, two hours a day (60 min+60 min) for four weeks, by the researchers. No application will be made to the control group (n=60). Follow-up evaluations of the research will be completed in the following six months. The Health Literacy Scale and Breast Cancer Screening Beliefs Scale will be re-administered to all women in the experimental and control groups at the first follow-up after three months and at the second follow-up after 6 months. The data will be analyzed with statistical methods and the effectiveness of the training will be evaluated. When the project is concluded; The results will be presented as an article in a national or international journal, or as an oral presentation at a national or international congress. It will be ensured that breast cancer screening training given to women working in the municipality will increase their level of health literacy, have a positive effect on breast cancer screening belief and behavior, and increase their awareness and knowledge level on this subject. In the long term, widespread effects such as reducing the costs women spend on breast cancer, reducing mortality and morbidity rates, raising a conscious society, training undergraduate students involved in the project, and helping them learn by experiencing the research conducted at the national level are foreseen.

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