Pustaka Ilmiah Universitas Padjadjaran

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Effect Of Health Education Over Self Care Activity And An Anxiety Of Women With Advanced Cervical Cancer In West Java

Woman who is diagnosed having advanced cervical cancer undergoes both physiology and psychological effect changes that make her life decreasing. With health education given, the women is hoped to get involve actively in her self care activity and can fix her quality of life. This research aims to know how effective health education over self care activity and an anxiety of women with advanced cervical cancer. This research used experiment quation design with design of pre test and post test with control group. It involved 64 women, each research group stood from 32 respondents who took medicine at Gynecology Polyclicnic of Dr. Hasan Sadikin hospital, Bandung, Sumedang General hospital, and Cibabat General hospital and who were diagnosed having advanced cervical cancer and they fulfilled inclusive criterion. Research result shows significant difference of self care activity average and anxiety before and after being given health education to the intervention group (Pv.0.000). Education also influences on self care activity, since education is one of the factors that can affect one’s behavior and knowledge that can improve control over emotion, autonomy, self esteem, stamina and also help client to adapt with her disease which in the end can improve client’s life quality. Suggestion for the nurisng service, health education can be used as one of ways in delivering information to incerase self care activity and decrease anxiety on women with advanced cervical cancer.