The Effect of the Brochure on Testicular Self-Exam

The Effect of the Brochure Given to University Students on Testicular Cancer and Its Early Diagnosis on Health Beliefs and Testicular Self-Examination

Status

Completed

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT05073198

Enrollment

Registered

2021-10-11

Start date

2019-12-05

Completion date

2021-06-16

Last updated

2021-10-11

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Conditions

Testicular Cancer

Keywords

testicular cancer, screening, university student

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.

Interventions

OTHEREducation brochure

In the content of the brochure about testicular cancer and CCTM prepared in line with the literature; It includes information such as the definition of testicular cancer, testicular cancer risk factors and symptoms, the importance of early diagnosis in testicular cancer, how CCTM is performed, and what to do in case of differences after the examination. Expert opinion was obtained from three faculty members (a professor from the Department of Urology, a professor in Public Health Nursing and a physician faculty member) regarding the content validity of the educational brochure created before the research.

Study design

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

SINGLE (Outcomes Assessor)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

MALE

Age

18 Years to 35 Years

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

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

Exclusion criteria

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

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
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.

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026