The Effect of Monthly Text Message Reminder After Training on Beliefs and Practice Behaviors Regarding Women's Breast Self Examination: Randomized Controlled Study

Deniz Akyıldız

Status: Completed

Conditions: Women's Breast Self Examination Practice; Women's Breast Self Examination Beliefs

Treatments: Behavioral: Monthly reminder message about breast self-exam.

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05418985

Text Message Reminder BSE

Details and patient eligibility

About

A randomized control trial was made to examine the effects of of monthly text message reminder after training on beliefs and practice behaviors regarding women's breast self examination.

Enrollment: 83 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 20 to 69 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Between the ages of 20-69,
• Able to speak and understand Turkish,
• At least primary school graduate,
• Not in pregnancy or postpartum period,
• Not in the breastfeeding process,
• Menarche,
• No current diagnosis of breast cancer,
• No breast disease that may affect the examination finding.

Exclusion criteria

• Those who did not complete the training on BSE,
• Those who want to leave the research,
• Those who had pregnancy during the research and
• Those who do not fill in the data forms sent to their e-mail addresses despite being reminded by message three times.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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83 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

Women in this group were given training on breast self-examination (BSE). In the three-month period following the training, a reminder text message was sent to mobile phones by the researcher to perform BSE. The text message was sent to women with regular and regular menstrual cycles on the seventh day after the bleeding ceased, and on the first day of the month to menopausal women with irregular menstrual cycles.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Monthly reminder message about breast self-exam.

Control droup

No Intervention group

Description:

Women in this group were given training on breast self-examination (BSE). No intervention was made afterwards.