The effectiveness of planned teaching programme on knowledgde regarding ors preparation among mothers of under five children

Abstract

Health education regarding hygienic water, breastfeeding, basic sanitation and hygienic practice helps to attain the highest level of knowledge. There fore the nursing practice should be patient centered rather than task centered to prevent complications.: Research approach: a quzi experimental research design refers to a design. Research Design: one group pretest posttest experimental study design will be adopted for this study. Research Design: pre experimental research. Setting: the study was conducted in bawaliya khurd. Sample Size: the sample size of the study was100 mothers of under five children. Sampling technique: the participants of present study was selected by simple random sampling technique. That the improvement mean and standard deviation in the knowledge aspect the mean was 9.74 with standard deviation of 5.34. The effectiveness of structured. Teaching programme regarding knowledge was done by paired 't' test comparing the calculated value and table value at P < 0.05. It was highly significant. In pretest, level of knowledge on mothers of under five children showed that 57% mothers had in adequate knowledge, 43% mothers had moderately adequate knowledge and none of mother had adequate knowledge. In post test evaluation showed that 47% of mother had moderately adequate knowledge, 53% of mother had adequate knowledge and none of the mothers had inadequate knowledge. There was statistically P<0.05 significant improvement in knowledge could be found in relation to effectiveness of teaching programme.