Table 1.

Educational program implemented in the experimental group.

Sessions	Objectives	A summary of topics and activities
First	Promoting knowledge	Providing information about breast cancer risk symptoms, the importance, and necessity of early detection of breast cancer
Second	Promoting knowledge	Increasing the participants’ awareness of early cancer diagnosis based on instructional approaches providing new information, motivating communications, and expressing feelings accompanied by images using the PowerPoint. complications, and consequences of breast cancer
Third	Changing and improving attitude	Topics, including whether breast self-examination pleasant and useful or unpleasant and harmful, and its positive effects on women’s health were discussed.
Fourth	Improving attitude	Topics, including the positive effects of breast self-examination on women’s health and longevity were discussed.
Fifth	Subjective norms (positive effect of family and doctor on breast self-examination)	In this session, the subjects’ girls or sisters and relatives were educated about the benefits of breast self-examination for women’s health by a reproductive health specialist, and also some explanations were provided about encouraging and supporting their mothers or sisters or relatives regarding breast self-examination
Sixth	Subjective norms (positive effect of family and doctor on breast self-examination)	In this session, the subjects’ girls or sisters and relatives were educated about the benefits of breast self-examination for women’s health by a reproductive health specialist, and also some explanations were provided about encouraging and supporting their mothers or sisters or relatives regarding breast self-examination
Seventh	Familiarity of women with perceived barriers to breast self-examination	Promoting perceived benefits of BSE, breast self-examination barriers, and the ways to overcome them were presented
Eighth	Promoting women’s ability and self-efficacy to do breast self-examination	Enhancing decision-making power based on attitude change and skill development approaches and the steps of breast self-examination were presented visually.

Abbreviation: BSE, breast self-examination.