PENDIDIKAN KESEHATAN DAN KONSELING TENTANG PENINGKATAN KUALITAS HIDUP PASIEN KANKER DI DESA LEBAKWANGI KECAMATAN ARJASARI

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The health system in Indonesia requires a coordinating institution that can build and improve the education system and health services not only in the city but also in remote areas. Supported by one of the Indonesian universities in Indonesia, Universitas Padjadjaran is one of the universities that have the feasibility of human resources and other support for the implementation of community services activities. The aim of this study is to develop one of the assisted villages by the Universitas Padjadjaran namely Arjasari Village so that the society has more concern to prevent the health problems especially cancer that has spreading increasingly widespread in the village community. The health education and early detection examination of cervical cancer was conducted in this study. The result showed that the characteristic of women who attended the counseling and early detection examination of cervical cancer was 46 - 55 years old as many as 23 respondents (38,33%). This suggests that adult women are more interested than others. In the education level showed that the high school level were 26 respondents (43,3%). The result of test of this study found that 29 respondents (48,33%) were high score of pre-test result while in the post-test result found 23 respondents (38,33%) were medium score. The different scores between the pre-test and post-test because of various factors. The activity of health education and learning intensively to the community has positive impact, the public becomes more aware about the information about cervical cancer, particularly in the cancer prevention and improve the quality of life among patients with cancer.

Keywords: Early detection, cervical cancer, health education