title: Getting youth to Check it Out!®: a new approach to teaching self-screening.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine if intervention school students who received skills-based breast self-exam (BSE)/testicular self-exam (TSE) training were more likely than control school students to report higher intentions to perform BSE/TSE, greater BSE/TSE self-efficacy, and actual performance of BSE/TSE.
  
  
  METHODS
  BSE/TSE behaviors, intentions, and self-efficacy were assessed in a high school-based trial (N = 6 schools; 3 schools randomized/condition) using self-reported data at 3 time points (N = 1058, 9 th grade students).
  
  
  RESULTS
  At follow-up, intervention students had greater BSE/TSE intentions and self-efficacy than control students. Intervention students were more likely than control students to report monthly BSE (54.8% vs 27.2%, p = .031) and TSE (81.5% vs 31.4%, p = .010).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Skills-based interventions with goal setting affect teenagers' self-examination behaviors, intentions, and self-efficacy. Teaching self-screening may empower teenagers to become more engaged in their preventive health, which may lead to improved health as they age.
authors.affiliation: Division of Epidemiology, Department of Family Medicine and Population Health, School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA. rmjones2@vcu.edu.
authors.forename: Resa M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.affiliation: Student Health Services, California Maritime Academy, Vallejo, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Ian J
authors.initials: IJ
authors.lastname: Wallace
authors.affiliation: Life Skills Center, Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA.
authors.forename: Alice
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Westerberg
authors.affiliation: Life Skills Center, Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA.
authors.forename: Kristyn N
authors.initials: KN
authors.lastname: Hoy
authors.affiliation: Department of Human and Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA.
authors.forename: John M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Quillin
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA.
authors.forename: Steven J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Danish
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods*; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012574:Schools; D016353:Self-Examination / Q000379:methods*; D013334:Students; D013736:Testicular Neoplasms / Q000517:prevention & control*