The purpose of this study was to understand, on web-base, the extend of knowledge, attitudes and practice of breast cancer screening of female
employees of the senior high schools in Taichung county and to study the factors that influence their knowledge, attitudes and practice status.Furthermore,the effects of web-based education on breast cancer screening and factors that affecting the difference on the web-based education of breast cancer screening were analyzed.
This study used one group with ?before-and-after design? and asynchronous web- based education . Total of 492 subjects were aged 20 and above female
employees of the senior high schools in Taichung county. A self-designed semi- structure questionnaire was developed for collecting data. The data was analyzed with SPSS 10.0 software. The important findings of the study were concluded as follows:
1. At Breast Self-Examination ?BSE?, 23.6% of the subjects had never done breast self-examination before, 69.5% of the subjects did it irregularly, only 6.9% of the subjects did it regularly. Top three reasons of the subjects had never done BSE before are ?do not know how to do?, ?forget? and ?too busy to do it?. On clinical breast cancer screen, 69.3% of the subjects had never done clinical breast cancer screening before, 24.8% of the subjects did it irregularly, only 5.9% of the subjects did it regularly. On top three reasons of the subjects had never done clinical breast cancer screening before were ?too busy ?, ?not necessary?, and ?feel
embarrassed?.
2.The important factors of affecting the practice of breast cancer screening were ? satisfaction for the last breast cancer screening?, ?bathroom facilities with half- body mirror?, ?level of education?, ?have been searched the information of the breast cancer screening on web side?, ?personal history of the breast cancer?, ? has been educated on health education of breast cancer screening?, the score of before test for the breast cancer screening knowledge? and ?the score of before test for the breast cancer screening attitudes?.
3.After web-based education of breast cancer screening to the subjects, the breast cancer screening knowledge, attitudes and practice intention are improved significantly. Subjects gave positive credit to this web-based education.
4.The important factors affecting the difference on subjects?practice intention of being willing to do breast cancer screening were ?school district?, ?age?, ?
menopause? , ?have been searched the information of the breast cancer
screening on web side?, ?satisfaction for the last breast cancer screening?, ?the difference of the score of the breast cancer screening knowledge? and ?the difference of the score of the breast cancer screening attitudes?.
Web-based education on breast cancer screening does have positive effective on common people. It is another kind of health education method which is also perspective, economical, and professional.
