PENINGKATAN PENGETAHUAN MELALUI EDUKASI DAN DEMONSTRASI SADARI PADA WANITA USIA SUBUR DI KELURAHAN JATIBARU KOTA BIMA

Abstract

Community service through health education for women of childbearing age is crucial for women of childbearing age to understand the benefits and advantages of breast self-examination (BSE) and the correct technique. Midwives, health lecturers, and midwifery students play a crucial role in providing health education through health education (IEC) and BSE demonstrations. Midwives' competence is crucial in providing information at every visit, whether to integrated health posts (Posyandu) or to patients seeking family planning (KB). Lecturers from the Harapan Bunda Bima Midwifery Academy conducted a BSE outreach program in Jatibaru Village, within the Jatibaru Community Health Center (Puskesmas) in Bima City, in collaboration with health and government agencies. Based on preliminary studies, data on the number of women of childbearing age who know about BSE and how to perform it correctly, there are 2 out of 10 women of childbearing age who know BSE and the correct technique. The purpose of providing counseling on BSE and the correct technique for women is to detect breast tumors and cancer early to minimize the incidence and treatment. The activity method is carried out by creating pretest and posttest questions which are used to measure the level of knowledge before and after being given counseling. and playing videos and demonstrations of BSE techniques correctly played by Harapan Bunda Bima Midwifery Academy and the measuring tool is a checklist of correct BSE techniques from Harapan Bunda Bima Midwifery Academy. Based on the results of the assessment before (pretest) given counseling, namely WUS who know BSE and its techniques, namely mothers who have less knowledge as many as 92% have sufficient knowledge as many as 8% and experienced an increase after counseling by conducting a re-assessment (posttest) where WUS who have less knowledge are 20%, and sufficient 28%, and good as many as 52%.