Effectiveness of Structured Education on Florescence Test Colposcopy in the Diagnosis of a Typical Metaplasia Dysplasia and Carcinoma in situ of the Cervix among Women of Reproductive age

This study was conducted in Paras Hospital, Gurgaon, Haryana, India and was undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of structured education on knowledge and attitude regarding florescence test colposcopy in the diagnosis of atypical metaplasia dysplasia and carcinoma in situ of the cervix among women of reproductive age.A pre–experimental one group pretest – posttest design was adopted for this study. 30 women under the age group of 35 to 45years and attending the gynae outpatient department were selected by using simple random sampling technique. Data was collected regarding demographic variable, knowledge, attitude on colposcopy. Level of knowledge, attitude of the women was evaluated using structured questionnaire and modified three point Likert Scale and by using checklist through one to one teaching by lecture, demonstration, video clippings and verbalization. Structured teaching programme was conducted on the same day on group wise each group consists of 5 members. Data collection was done in Hindi and English. At the end of the teaching the doubts were cleared. Then 10 minutes was allotted for discussion. The analysis of finding indicates that 38.3% of mothers had inadequate knowledge, 53.33% had negative attitude regarding colposcopy. A well planned structured teaching programme was given to the same group. The effectiveness of programme showed high level of significance at p<0.001 level. It showed that structured teaching programme was an effective method to improve the knowledge, attitude and there by the diagnosis of atypical metaplasia dysplasia and carcinoma in situ of the cervix.