The Effect of the Brochure on Testicular Self-Exam

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Completed

• Conditions: Testicular Cancer
• Interventions: Other: Education brochure

• Registration Number: NCT05073198
• Lead Sponsor: Selcuk University

Brief Summary

This study aims to examine the effect of the educational brochure given to university students on testicular cancer and its early diagnosis on their health beliefs and self-examination; In non-randomized groups, pretest-posttest was conducted in a quasi-experimental design with control group. The research was carried out with students studying in the psychological counseling and guidance department of a state university in Turkey. The study group consisted of 92 students, 48 of which were experimental and 44 were control. Only the experimental group was given an educational brochure about testicular cancer and testicular self-examination. Data; Personal information form, testicular cancer and health beliefs scale about testicular self-examination were collected with the form for self-examination. In the evaluation of the data; Mann Whitney U, Wilcoxon and chi-square analyzes were performed.

Detailed Description

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Basic Information
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Recruitment & Eligibility
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Study & Design
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Trial Locations

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2019-12-05
• Primary Completion: 2020-07-20
• Study Completion: 2021-06-16
• Status Verified: 2021-09
• Study First Submitted: 2021-09-19
• Study First Submitted QC: 2021-09-28
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-09-28
• Study First Posted: 2021-10-11
• Last Update Posted: 2021-10-11

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: Male
• Target Recruitment: 92

Inclusion Criteria

• To study in the Department of Psychological Counseling and Guidance
• Studying in 3rd and 4th grade

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Exclusion Criteria

• Any previous diagnosis of cancer
• Having received previous training in Testicular Self Examination

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Experiment	Education brochure	Giving educational brochures about testicular cancer and Testicular Self-Examination to the students in the experimental group

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
rate of testicular self-exam	after 4 weeks	After the training brochure given to the students, they are expected to do testicular examination on their own.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Selcuk University; 🇹🇷 Konya, Selcuklu, Turkey