The Effectiveness of Community Development Model by Using Whatsapp toward Old Women Behavior in Early Detection of Cervical Cancer

Abstract

The aim of this research was to describe the effectiveness of the community development model for health promotion using WhatsApp toward old women behavior in doing an early detection of cervical cancer through the examination of visual acetic acid. The kind of this research was the mixed method and sequential strategy. The model of the mixed sequential method is a procedure of research when the researcher combines the qualitative and quantitative data by mixing in different time. The research of design used sequential explanatory; did the collection and analysis the quantitative data first, then followed by collecting the qualitative data based on the result of quantitative data. The research was conducted on December 2019 to May 2020. The research location was in Bantul District, Special Region of Yogyakarta. The partcicipants in this research were elderly women that had followed the process of quantitative research. The determination of the participants number in this research was undertaken sequentially; determining the limit of the increase until reaching the data saturation to obtain the number of participants which consisted of 15 participants, while for quantitative section, 40 participants were employed. The technique of data collection used in this research was in-depth interview, observation and study documentation. Data analysis was conducted quantitatively and qualitatively. The results indicated that from 87.5 percent of participants (35 participants), 97.5 percent did the early detection of cervical cancer. Based on the results, it was indicated that the community development model for health promotion using WhatsApp was effective in encouraging changes in the behavior of the elderly in early detection of cervical cancer through the examination of visual acetic acid in Bantul District.