The adolescent period is a time of rapid changes that provides teaching opportunities for shaping health behaviors into adulthood. Hence the study was undertaken to evaluate the effect of simulator assisted teaching on knowledge and practice regarding self breast examination among adolescent girls in selected college, Thrissur. The other objectives of the study were to assess the pre test knowledge and practice score, to correlate the knowledge and practice of adolescent girls and to find out the association of knowledge and practice with selected demographic variables. The design of the study was quasi experimental one group pre testpost test design conducted over 60 adolescent girls selected by using simple random sampling technique. Pre test was done using structured knowledge questionnaire and self reported practice check list. After that the researcher rendered simulator assisted teaching programme regarding self breast examination. Post test was done after 7 days and analysis showed that there was a significant increase in knowledge and practice after rendering simulator assisted teaching programme. The pre and post test mean knowledge score were 14.47 and 26.62 respectively, regarding practice it was 3.976 and 0.0993. The findings also showed that there was no correlation between knowledge and practice (r=0.099ns, p=0.452).The significant association was found with knowledge and practice of adolescent girls with selected demographic variables such as attend education programme regarding self breast examination and previous practice of self breast examination. Thus the study concluded that simulator assisted teaching programme was effective in improving knowledge and practice of adolescent girls regarding self breast examination.

Keywords: Adolescent; Simulator Assisted Teaching; Self breast examination; Knowledge; Practice.