HPV Education, Early Diagnosis and Knowledge

Mehmet Akif Ersoy University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Female Teachers

Treatments: Behavioral: Face to face education; Behavioral: Online education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06464523

GO 2020/71)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study was to determine the effect of health education given to female teachers on HPV knowledge and screening test. The population of the study consisted of all female teachers belonging to the Bucak Directorate of National Education between September 2021 and March 2022. The sample of the study consisted of 144 healthy female teachers who were registered in the institutions affiliated to the District Directorate of National Education between the specified dates, met the inclusion criteria and volunteered to participate in the study. In this study area, with the assumption that the rate of cervical cancer screening test of 70% of the women in the Healthy Life Centre after the trainings would be considered significant, the effect size d=0.18 was calculated to include at least 98 women in 3 groups at 95% power and 0.05 error level. The calculation was performed with the 'G Power 3.1.9.2' package programme. In this context, the total sample of the study was determined as 156 participants, 52 in each group.

Enrollment: 156 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• to volunteer to participate in the study,
• To be between the ages of 30-65,
• being a woman teacher,
• being married
• to be able to make video calls.

Exclusion criteria

• being pregnant or in the postnatal period,
• a history of cervical cancer,
• to have hysterectomy operation.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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156 participants in 3 patient groups

Face to face education

Experimental group

Description:

In addition to the standard cervical cancer screening programme service, participants in this group received individual face-to-face health education on HPV and cervical cancer prevention through home visits and were given educational brochures. Participants in this group were interviewed a total of four times (four times face-to-face) during the research process.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Face to face education

Online education

Experimental group

Description:

In addition to the standard cervical cancer screening programme service, participants in this group received individual health education on HPV and cervical cancer prevention online via video call via WhatsApp application and were given a digital education brochure. Participants in this group were interviewed a total of four times (four times remotely) during the research process.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Online education

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

During the research process, the participants in the control group did not receive any intervention other than the standard cervical cancer screening programme service. During the research process, the participants in the control group were interviewed face-to-face twice. After the termination of the study, health education on protection against HPV and cervical cancer was provided to the volunteer participants by a method they specified and an educational brochure was given.