Background: Breast cancer is one type of cancer is most common women in
Indonesia and around the world. Breast self-examination is a screening can be
done by the women for the early detection of breast cancer. This study aims to
Analyze the differences effects of health education lecturing and discussion
methods on attitudes about Breast Self Examination based on knowledge.
Subjects and Methods: This research used the experimental research using a
Randomized Controlled Trial design. The samples of the research were taken by
using the cluster random sampling technique. There are 30 subjects intervention
or control group for each to the second semester of college students of the school
year 2012/2013. Reliability of the instrument variables were examined by using
Item-Total Correlation, Split-Half Reliability. Alpha () Cronbach. The data were
analyzed by using the t-test,ANAVA two way and multiple linear regression.
Results: There is positive and significant differences health education between a
lecture and discussion method on student attitudes about BSE (CI = 95%, p
<0.001). There is a positive and significant effect of the method of health
education with college student attitudes about BSE (b
1
= 9.15 CI = 95% 6.82 to
11.48, p <0.001). Knowledge (b
2
= 0.37 CI = 95% 0.32 to 0.71, p = 0.019). There
is an interaction and significant effect of the method of health educational,
knowledge, with college student attitudes about BSE (CI=95%; p = 0,030)
Keywords: Health education, lecture, discussions, Breast Self Examination
(BSE)
