Breast Screening And Self-exam For Women’s Group

Title of Teaching Plan

Breast screening and self-exam for women’s group

Speaker

Targeted Learners

The target population for the teaching is women between 15 years to 45 years of age.

Setting

Purpose

The main purpose of the teaching plan is to make target population group aware of the risk of breast cancer and the importance of breast screening and self-examination. Knowledge about breast screening and self-examination is necessary to detect breast cancer at an early stage and reduce the risk of breast cancer among women. The prevalence of breast cancer is increasing in developing countries and the most effective approach for improving survival rate is to diagnose and treat the disease at an early stage. Many women avoid going to health clinic because of poor knowledge related to breast cancer and neglect (Pilevarzadeh, 2016). Hence, making target population aware about the importance of early diagnosis and breast screening is necessary.

Goal

The main goals of the teaching plan are:

· To make women aware about the need and importance of going for routine breast screening

· To educate women regarding the methods to follow to conduct self-examination of breast

· To change women’s attitude towards participation in breast screening programs and reduce the stigma associated with breast screening

· To encourage women to actively take part in breast screening and refer to health services for any suspicion related to breast cancer.

Objectives  

Content Outline

Method of Instruction

Time Allotted (minutes)

Resources

Method of Evaluation

To provide data and statistics related to the prevalence of breast cancer and the utility of early diagnosis for women

The content will cover the following aspects:

· To cover details related to breast cancer occurrence in USA using the statistics from American Cancer Society 2017-2018 survey (American Cancer Society 2018).

· To list down points related to the importance of early diagnosis of breast cancer by describing benefits such as reduction in breast cancer death rates and best methods for breast cancer screenings (Oeffinger et al., 2015).

Verbal and audiovisual model will be used to provide data points and figures related to breast feeding rates

1 hours (Day 1)

Projector, power point related to the content and laptop are the resource needed for teaching.

Evaluation of teaching will be done by providing short multiple choice questions to participants at the end to estimate their knowledge related to breast cancer (Lemlem et al., 2013).

To provide education regarding the utility of self-examination to reduce risk of breast cancer

· To provide teaching to women with evidence based material regarding the utility of breast self-examination

· The study by Abera, Mengistu and Bedaso (2017) will be cited as an example to prove the effectiveness of planned teaching on increasing knowledge and practice related to breast screening. The study has proved that teaching breast self-examination along with demonstration resulted in increase in knowledge related to breast cancer. This may motivate women to further take interest in the teaching plan

Verbal method of instruction

Day 2-(1 hours approx)

Power point and video recordings of people who got benefit from taking part in screening programs

To evaluate change in perceptions of population group regarding the utility of breast self-examination by means of survey method

To demonstrate correct way to self-examine breast and contact health care services accordingly

· The contents will define the best time to conduct breast self-examination which is few  days after the end of menstrual cycle

· To instruct regarding the steps to follow while performing the breast self-examination starting from standing in front of the mirror to visual inspection of breast to identify changes in shape and size

· To instruct regarding actions to be taken after a breast self-examination such as making an appointment with the doctor (Schwab et al. 2015)

· To provide list of name related to breast special health clinic near to an individual’s home

Physical and audio-visual mode is needed to demonstrated correct method of conducting a breast self-examination

1 hours (Day 3)

Powerpoint presentation and lessons or resource for teaching

Breast self-examination knowledge form will be distributed to women and the response will be evaluated. Similar approach was also taken by Tuna et al. (2014) to evaluate the effectiveness of online education in teaching breast self-examination

To address stigma around breast screening and participation in breast screening program

· To evaluate women’s perception related to breast cancer screening by asking questions related to number of screenings done so far

· To list down common reasons for avoiding screening such as fearful of diagnosis, poor knowledge about breast cancer risk, cultural perceptions related to breast cancer. The study by Kawar (2013) will be used as an example to show how cultural perception and attitude towards breast screening influence women’s awareness related to breast cancer

Audio-visual presentation and discussion rounds

1-2 hours (Day 4)

Arrangements needed for discussion rounds and audio-visual presentation

The effectiveness of the teaching session will be judged by asking questions about their opinion about breast screening program after the teaching session.