The Effects of Motivated Teaching Program on Disease Perception and Cervical Cancer Screening Rate among Rural Thai Women
Abstract
Background and Objective: Cervical cancer is a serious disease, and found to be the top 3 of cancers in women worldwide. It remains a major public health problem. In Thailand, the incidence of cervical cancer is rising continuously and causes of the highest death of all cancers in Thai women. This study aims to examine the effects of motivated teaching program on disease perception and cervical cancer screening rate.
Methods : This quasi-experimental research was aimed to examine the effects of motivated teaching program on disease perception and cervical cancer screening rate. Fifty-two rural women aged 30 – 60 years from two subdistricts in southern Thailand were purposively selected. Twenty-six women from a subdistrict that assigned to be the control group received regular teaching service and 26 women from another subdistrict that assigned to be the experimental group received motivated teaching program. The program composed of group teaching, demonstration with interactive model and shared learning from experienced women. The instruments used for data collection consisted of an assessment tool on perception of cervical cancer and screening record which validated by 4 experts. The perception assessment tool was tested for is internal consistency yielding an Alpha coefficient of 0.84. Data were analyzed by frequency, percentage and mean comparison using t-test. In addition the numbers of women attending the screening service were compared using chi-square.
Results : 1) After receiving the motivated teaching program, the experimental group gained a better on perception cervical cancer than before (t = 10.24, p <0.1) 2). Mean score of the disease perception in motivated teaching group was significantly better than that of regular teaching group (t = 4.72, p <0.1) 3). The cervical cancer screening rate of women in motivated teaching program was significantly higher than that of regular teaching group (χ2 = 0.05, p <0.05).
Conclusions : The results showed that the motivated teaching program had improved both the perception of cervical cancer and rate of attending screening service among the rural Thai women. The motivated teaching program should be further applied to encourage rural Thai women in attending cervical cancer screening service.
Keywords : Motivated teaching program, Perception, Cervical cancer, Screening
