The Effect of Cervical Cancer Awareness Education Based on Mobile Application

Summary

Cervical cancer is one of the most common cancer types affecting women in our country and in the world and causing morbidity. However, the availability of a vaccine for cervical cancer, preventable risk factors and early diagnosis tests offer a unique opportunity to reduce the rate of cervical cancer. In this context, there are studies showing that the practices developed by policies differ and that the classical health approach is insufficient. The effectiveness of the trainings given may vary according to time, place, trainer and personal characteristics of the individual. At the same time, in order to improve the attitudes and behaviours of individuals in terms of prevention and early diagnosis of cervical cancer, awareness of individuals about cervical cancer should be increased. In this way, women will have a say about their own health and their conscious participation in health care services will be realised. Therefore, the aim of this project is to apply cervical cancer awareness training to women and to examine its effect on women's cervical cancer prevention and early diagnosis behaviours. Original value; The fact that there is no mobile application developed for cervical cancer in Turkey reveals the national value of the research. In addition, the mobile application has international unique value as it is the first mobile application structured to provide awareness on cervical cancer prevention and early diagnosis behaviours. The project method was planned for the development and implementation of the mobile application programme. The research design will be a randomised controlled study. The 120 women who meet the inclusion criteria and who apply to more than one family health centre will be randomly assigned to the intervention and control groups. The effect of the mobile application programme on women's attitudes and behaviours towards cervical cancer prevention and early diagnosis will be evaluated at the 6th and 12th weeks. In the evaluation of the data, t-test for independent groups, anova and chi-square tests will be used to measure the effect of the intervention. Widespread effect; In this way, it is planned to reduce the time spent by professionals for care-related activities, to strengthen time management, to provide advantages and improvements in the performance of nurses in patient care management by using technological resources in the health care provided.

Conditions

• Cervix Cancer
• Cancer Awareness
• Mobile Application
• HPV
• Nurse's Role

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Mobile application

The mobile application will be designed as a health assistant for women aged between 30-65 to encourage healthy choices and positively develop their behaviors regarding the prevention of cancer. Within the scope of the mobile application, information modules on cervical cancer screening tests, cervical cancer risk factors, ways to prevent cervical cancer, types of HPV, and HPV vaccine will be provided. A parallel-group pretest-posttest randomized controlled trial design will be used in the second stage of the study

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Akdeniz University

  collaborator OTHER

• Kutahya Health Sciences University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Sena F Karakışla, MSc · Akdeniz University

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

35 Years

Max Age

60 Years

Sex

FEMALE

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2024-04-01

Primary Completion

2024-10-21

Completion

2025-05-27

Countries

• Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations