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February 5, 20260 citationsOpen Access

Comparative Effectiveness of Conventional and Electronic Health Education on Breast Self-Examination Practices Among Adult Women in Oyo State

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SASola Abimbola AkinwaleOAOlufunke Morenikeji Adeyemi

Key Points

  • This research aims to compare the effectiveness of conventional and electronic health education on breast self-examination practices among women in Oyo State.
  • Quasi-experimental design used to evaluate two educational approaches: conventional and electronic.
  • Multi-stage sampling techniques were applied across rural and urban communities in three senatorial districts in Oyo State.
  • Each group consisted of 213 participants for a total of 426 participants.
  • Validated questionnaires were utilized for data collection.
  • Descriptive statistics and paired/independent t-tests were used for data analysis.
  • Significant differences found in knowledge, attitude, self-efficacy, and practices between conventional and electronic education groups (all p < 0.05).
  • Participants in the conventional group exhibited better knowledge about breast self-examination than those in the electronic group.
  • Improvements in attitude and self-efficacy were also more pronounced in the conventional education group.

Abstract

This study investigated effectiveness of conventional and electronic health educational campaign on Breast self-examination practice among adult women in Oyo State. This study adopted quasi-experimental design, using two interventional approach: convectional teaching medium and Electronic teaching medium. Multi-stage sampling techniques was employed in the selection process, where two rural and urban communities were selected across three senatorial districts in Oyo State, to give six urban and rural areas. Each educational campaign group had 213 participants, therefore the two groups in total had 426 participants. Validated questionnaire was adopted for data collection. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. Hypotheses were tested using paired and independent t-test. Statistical significance was set at p < 0.05. Hypotheses tested revealed that, there is a significant difference in conventional and electronic group knowledge (p < 0.05), attitude (p < 0.05); Self-efficacy (p< 0.05) and practice (p< 0.05) respectively. This study concluded that, participants from convectional groups had better knowledge, attitude, Self-efficacy and practice of BSE compare to Electronic group.

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Akinwale et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/698434dff1d9ada3c1fb3869https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18454974
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