Ladies’ Night Out with Lady Cougar Care

Health Education SpecialistsSeven Areas of Responsibility

Area I: Assess Needs, Assets, and Capacity for Health EducationArea II: Plan Health EducationArea III: Implement Health EducationArea IV: Conduct Evaluation and ResearchArea V: Administer and Manage Health EducationArea VI: Serve as a Health Educator Resource PersonArea VII: Communicate and Advocate for Health & Health Education

The mission of Ladies’ Night Out was to increase the knowledge of

freshmen women about Health Services that are available for them

on campus regarding their reproductive health.

Ladies’ Night Out Mission

Target Population Our target population was female college students attending SIUE living in Bluff

Hall.

Why We Chose our Target Population

We targeted this population because:

76% of college women are sexually active. Female college freshmen are in a transitioning

period. New environment impacts their access to health

resources.

Needs Assessment

Total Surveyed: 50 Freshmen Women 96% of freshmen women have not used Health Service.

74% of freshmen women did not know that Health Service could perform a pelvic exam.

74% of freshmen women did not know that Health

Service offered Contraceptives.

50% of freshmen women did not know that Health Service could check suspicious breast lumps.

Ladies’ Night Out: Implementation

We decided to have a night full of activities that provided information about Health Service and what they offer. We

chose to have a laid back but educational atmosphere for the Freshmen women in Bluff hall.

Total participants: 30 female

Goals and Objectives

Based on our needs assessment, we came up with 5 Goals and 10 objectives.

Our program had 4 main objectives that were crucial for accomplishing our

goals.

Objective 2.1 At the end of the Lady Cougar Care program, 70% of participants will be able to identify the steps of creating online appointments at Health Service’s

website

Did we meet this objective?

Objective was met!

Confident to very confident: 17Not confident to very confident: 1

Not confident to confident: 2

Objective 3.1At the end of the Lady Cougar Care Program 80%

of participants will intend to perform monthly self-breast exams.

Did we meet this objective?

Objective was met!

Every participant that indicated they did not perform monthly Self-Breast exams on the

pre-test then indicated that the intended to do so on the Post Test.

“A lump can be that small?”

Objective 4.3At the end of the Lady Cougar Care program,

50% of participants will reduce their feelings of anxiety in regards to a pelvic exam.

Did we meet this objective?

Objective was not met!

The objective was missed by 14%, although there were 11 participants that did report decreasing there anxiety many were not

affected and other participants reported an increase of anxiety.

Objective 5.1At the end of the Lady Cougar Care program, 80% of the participants will be able to correctly identify two types of contraceptives provided by Health Service.

Did we meet this objective?

Objective was met!

93% of participants were able to correctly identify two contraceptive methods offered At Health Service after the

program.

What We are Happy We DidAdvertising techniques

AtmosphereFood first

PrizesRaffle

What We Should’ve Done

Needs Assessment: What days are best for our target population? MicrophoneEnergizers

Overall Suggestions

Know your population Know what events are going on during

your time of implementation. Is there a opportunity to partnership?

Be aware that your implementation might correlate with a certain time of

year.

Any Questions?