A STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF STRUCTURED TEACHING PROGRAMME REGARDING PREVENTION AND MANAGEMENT OF MEASLES AMONG MOTHER’S OF UNDER FIVE CHILDREN IN SELECTED COMMUNITY AREA AT BANGALORE
MS. KHUNDRAKPAM SARITA DEVI
, MRS. BABITA YUMNAM
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The measles vaccine is effective at preventing the measles disease. Mothers are the primary care takers of the children because usually the children depend on their mothers for fulfilling their needs the mothers play a vital rule in safe grading their children against many diseases conditions especially infectious disease like viral infections. So their knowledge regarding infectious diseases and their prevention and management is of vital importance. There comes the importance of have knowledge regarding measles, importance of vaccination, disease due to lack of hygienic of food, vitamin A, but most of the mother under five children lack knowledge and neglect to maintain food hygiene and infrastructure and vaccination, they get measles. For this reason the researcher decided to conduct a study to assess the effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme regarding Prevention and management of Measles among Mother’s of under five children in selected Community area, in Bangalore. OBJECTIVES To assess the level of knowledge regarding prevention and management of measles among mother’s of under five children. To evaluate the effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on knowledge regarding prevention and management of measles among mother’s of under five children. To find out the association between knowledge score and selected demographic variables of mother’s of under five children. HYPOTHESIS These hypothesis are stated at 0.05 level of significance H1: There will be a significant difference between the mean pre -test and post- test knowledge scores of mother’s of under five children regarding measles management and its prevention. H2: There will be a significant association between the mean post -test knowledge scores of mother’s of under five children regarding measles management and its prevention with their selected demographic variables. METHODS Quasi Experimental one group pre test post test research design was adopted for the present study. Structured knowledge questionnaire was used for collecting the data. The main study was conducted in Sanjay Nagar PHC at Bangalore, among 60 mother’s of under five children are selected by purposive sampling technique. RESULTS The pre test mean knowledge score obtained, after administering STP significant improvement in the knowledge among Mother’s of under five children observed. Hence the research hypothesis stated that there will be significant difference between pre and post test knowledge regarding prevention and management of measles was accepted. There was no statistically significant association found between the post test knowledge score of mother’s under five children selected demographic variables.
"A STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF STRUCTURED TEACHING PROGRAMME REGARDING PREVENTION AND MANAGEMENT OF MEASLES AMONG MOTHER’S OF UNDER FIVE CHILDREN IN SELECTED COMMUNITY AREA AT BANGALORE", IJSDR - International Journal of Scientific Development and Research (www.IJSDR.org), ISSN:2455-2631, Vol.7, Issue 5, page no.706, May-2022, Available :https://ijsdr.org/papers/IJSDR2205127.pdf
Volume 7
Issue 5,
May-2022
Pages : 706
Paper Reg. ID: IJSDR_200567
Published Paper Id: IJSDR2205127
Downloads: 000347426
Research Area: Engineering
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DOI: http://doi.one/10.1729/Journal.43822
ISSN: 2455-2631 | IMPACT FACTOR: 9.15 Calculated By Google Scholar | ESTD YEAR: 2016
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