Abstract:
This study was a quasi experimental design. It aimed to (1) compare the breast cancer-preventive behaviors of women at risk before and after receiving the coaching program on breast cancer-preventive behaviors and (2) compare between the breast cancer-preventive behaviors of women at risk who received the coaching program and those who received usual care. A participant of 40 women at risk was equally divided into a control group and an experimental group. The researcher selected participants by using simple random sampling. The experimental group received the program including attended a 60-minute coaching session on breast cancer-preventive behaviors at Lerdsin Hospital and home visits were provided 4th weeks after receiving the coaching session. Experimental tools included the coaching program on breast cancer-preventive behaviors and breast cancer-preventive behaviors booklet. Data collection included a questionnaire on demographic information and Breast Cancer-Preventive Behaviors Questionnaire, the control group received usual care from the nurse professional at the outpatient surgery clinic of Lerdsin Hospital. The duration of the study was totally 8 weeks. To analyze the data, Descriptive statistics (percentages, means and standard deviation), The Wilcoxon Matched Pairs Test and The Mann-Whitney U Test were used. The results showed that breast cancer-preventive behaviors in women at risk were better after receiving the coaching program, compared to the behaviors before the introduction of the program at the significance level .05 and breast cancer-preventive behaviors in women at risk who had received the coaching program on breast cancer-preventive behaviors were better than those who had received usual care at the significance level .05.