The Effect of the Brochure on Testicular Self-Exam

Selcuk University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Testicular Cancer

Treatments: Other: Education brochure

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05073198

20202002

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to examine the effect of the educational brochure given to university students on testicular cancer and its early diagnosis on their health beliefs and self-examination; In non-randomized groups, pretest-posttest was conducted in a quasi-experimental design with control group. The research was carried out with students studying in the psychological counseling and guidance department of a state university in Turkey. The study group consisted of 92 students, 48 of which were experimental and 44 were control. Only the experimental group was given an educational brochure about testicular cancer and testicular self-examination. Data; Personal information form, testicular cancer and health beliefs scale about testicular self-examination were collected with the form for self-examination. In the evaluation of the data; Mann Whitney U, Wilcoxon and chi-square analyzes were performed.

Enrollment: 92 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18 to 35 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• To study in the Department of Psychological Counseling and Guidance
• Studying in 3rd and 4th grade

Exclusion criteria

• Any previous diagnosis of cancer
• Having received previous training in Testicular Self Examination

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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92 participants in 2 patient groups

Experiment

Experimental group

Description:

Giving educational brochures about testicular cancer and Testicular Self-Examination to the students in the experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Education brochure

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

No intervention