A STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF STRUCTURED TEACHING PROGRAMME ON KNOWLEDGE REGARDING PREVENTION OF DENGUE FEVER AMONG MOTHERS OF UNDER FIVE CHILDREN

Author Name: 1Mrs. Sandeep Kaur, 2Mr. Ravi Prakash Saxena, 3Mrs. Pommy

Volume: 01 &  Issue:

Country: India

DOI NO.: 08.2020-25662434, DOI Link: http://www.doi-ds.org/doilink/09.2020-22524253/

Affiliation:

¹ Assistant Professor (CHN), Lala Lajpat Rai Institute of Nursing Moga, Punjab

 

²Guide, Professor cum Principal, (CHN) Mata Gujri Institute of Nursing Jalandhar, Punjab

³Co-guide, Professor, (CHN), Dr. Shyam Lal Thapar College of Nursing Moga, Punjab

ABSTRACT

Aim of the study to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding prevention of dengue fever among mothers of under five children in selected villages of Moga, Punjab. A quasi experimental Non-randomized control group research design was used to conduct study on 60 among mothers of under five children (30 in experimental and 30 in control group) fulfilling the inclusion criteria by using convenient sampling techniques under non probability sampling. The results showed that the (77%) mothers of under five children had good knowledge score and (23%) mothers of under five children had average knowledge after structured teaching progremme. In this study the post-test mean knowledge score of mothers of under five children regarding prevention of dengue fever of experimental group was higher than the post-test mean knowledge score of control group at p˂0.001 level. The formulated hypothesis H1 was retained at p˂0.001. Hence, it was concluded that structured teaching progremme had impact on increasing the knowledge among mothers of under five children

Key words: Effectiveness, Structured Teaching Programme, Knowledge, Prevention, Dengue Fever, Mothers of under five children