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Abstract : Objectives: The objectives of the study are as follows: (1) To estimate the knowledge and attitude of breast self-examination (BSE) before video-assisted teaching module (VATM) in adolescent girls. (2) To instruct the girls about BSE with VATM. (3) To evaluate the effectiveness of VATM on BSE among adolescent girls following the teaching methods using video. (4) To identify the factors which influence the interrelation between preferred variables on pre-test and post-test. Materials and Methods: The research approach used for this study is the quantitative educative and evaluative approach. The sample for this study consisted of 70 female adolescent students and the sample was selected through a random sampling method. The tool consisted of multiple-choice questionnaires with three parts; included with sociodemographic data, knowledge questionnaire on BSE, and checklist to assess attitude toward BSE. Descriptive statistics (frequency and percentage) and inferential statistics (paired sample Wilcoxon signed-rank test) were used to analyse the data and to test the hypotheses. Results: The majority of the girls (n = 42) had adequate knowledge on BSE of around 60% of the total number, 16 students had an excellent knowledge with 22.9% and, on the other hand, remaining students of 12 have moderately adequate knowledge with 17.1%. On the contrary, the post-test results are showing high effectiveness on the test results; most of the participants represented an excellent hike in knowledge with 97.10%, and only a few of around 2.90% showed adequate knowledge on BSE. Correlation analysis was done for all variables from master data and p values were corrected after multiple comparison corrections were done. The correlation values were significant. Participants who had the opinion that all women should do BSE were the ones who were interested in doing BSE. This clearly indicates that interest or attitude to BSE is an important factor. People who discussed about BSE also were keen to read about this procedure and get maximum information from the internet and magazines. Conclusion: People who were uncomfortable about BSE also got information from the internet and similar sources and the same set of people were uncomfortable because they seemed to be worried about detecting a cancerous growth. This aspect to be noticed and the effectiveness of BSE awareness procedures can solve such issues. This was even more evident looking at the negative correlation between knowledge scores and the uncomfortable nature. People who scored high in knowledge scores were also the ones who actively discussed about this topic with friends.