Pengaruh Pendidikan Kesehatan Tentang Sadari Dalam Upaya Deteksi Dini Kanker Payudara Di SMA Negeri 3 Kota Batam

Abstract

The mortality rate of breast cancer patients is high, particularly in the developing countries since most patients usually go to see doctors after their illness is in advanced stage so that the diagnosis is late; the result is that they are too late to get medication and finally die. Actually, breast cancer patients can detect the attack of the disease early by doing SADARI (Self breast examination), unfortunately only of few are doing. The objective of the research was to know the influence of health education in SADARI on female students??" knowledge and attitude toward early detection of breast cancer. The type of the research was experiment and pra-eksperimen one group pretest posttest. The population was all female students of class XII SMA Negeri 3 Batam city, totaling 176 people, Samples were taken by simple random sampling in order to obtain samples as many as 43 people. The statistical test used is the Wilcoxon test with α sama dengan 5 percent. The  analysis  of  the  data  showed  that  there  is  influence  of  health  education  on  knowledge  about  BSE  p kurang dari 0.001 kurang dari 0.05  in  the  early  detection  of  breast  cancer,  and  there  is  the  effect  of  health  education  on  attitudes  p sama dengan  0.003 kurang dari 0.05 in the early detection of breast cancer. It is suggested SMA Negeri 3 Batam city to make the leaflet of SADARI displayed in several rooms.