Health Education To Improve The Motivation Of Young Women To Do Breast Self-Examination (Breaking)

Abstract

Background: Breast cancer is the most feared disorder for women. Many breast cancer patients come to the health workers in an already severe condition. This is due to the lack of awareness to carry out early detection of breast cancer. One of the efforts in conducting early detection of abnormalities in the breast. Prevention is the most feasible intervention in early detection and has many advantages, namely being easy and practical. If BSE can be done regularly and periodically, then breast cancer can be detected early so that it gets further treatment quickly and appropriately. A preliminary study conducted by researchers on students of SMK Harapan Mulya Bransong found that the students had never heard of breast self-examination but some of them already knew about breast cancer. The results of interviews with teachers that there has never been any health counseling from the local health centers about BSE so researchers are interested in researching Health Education to Increase Young Methods: The design was experimental using Pre Experiment Design with One Group Pretest Posttest design. The sample in this study were all students of class XI, totaling 32 people. The data collection technique employed a structured questionnaire instrument. The motivation of the answers before and after the treatment was analyzed using the central tendency method. To test the effect, the Wilcoxon Test was used because the data were not normally distributed. Results: The p-value of 0.000 with a significance of p < 0.05 means Ho is rejected, meaning that there is an effect of health education on increasing adolescent motivation to do AWARE. Conclusion: there is an increase in adolescent motivation in carrying out breast self-examination so there is a significant effect of health education in increasing adolescent motivation in carrying out Breast SelfExamination (BSE). Suggestion: It is suggested that schools collaborate with the Public Health Center to get health information, especially adolescent reproductive health on a reg Women's Motivation to Doing Breast Self-Examination (BSE). Purpose: To find out the effectiveness of adolescent girls' health education on increasing adolescent motivation to do BSE.