A Study to assess the effectiveness of structured Teaching programme regarding the knowledge on Home Management of selected Minor Illness among mothers of under 10 children in A selected Community in Palakkad District Kerala

 

Prof. Tamilselvi¹, Mrs. Sheena. P², Mr. Sudhen Sumesh Kumar², Aiswarya A, Arjun Babu P, Athira C, Athira V, Ivin Sona George, Saranya K, Sneha Saju, Sruthi MM³

¹Principal, Nehru College of Nursing, Vaniyamkulam

²Associate Professors, Nehru College of Nursing, Vaniyamkulam

³BSc (N) Final Year Students, Nehru College of Nursing, Vaniyamkulam

 

ABSTRACT:

Home remedies are natural cures or medicines made athome from natural ingredients such as herbs, vegetablesand fruits and have given more attention due to its natureand cure. Many common illness are present in the under 10children. it can be treated at home without needing toconsult the doctor so a Pre-experimental one group pretest posttest study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme regarding the knowledge on home management of selected minor illness among mothers ofunder 10 children and on statistical analysis and the results concuded that the mean posttest knowledge score obtained is 29.6 washigher than the mean pretest knowledge score is 19.6.Paired t test was done to find out the difference betweenthe mean pretest knowledge score, the calculated t valueis (13.414) was found to be significant (p<0.0001) thisshows that STP was effective in increasing theknowledge regarding the home management of minorillness

 

 

INTRODUCTION:

Background of the study:

Home remedies are natural cures or medicines made at home from natural ingredients such as herbs, vegetables and fruits and have given more attention due to its nature and cure such as simple, no side effects, no chemicals, inexpensive and pleasure of being able to cure.

 

 

In home based remedies, the idea is used to the chemicals naturally present in the herbs, spices and other fruits to tackle the offending foreign element in the body that is causing pain or infection instead of flexing the body with hundreds of milligram of strong chemicals in the form of antibiotic. Though antibiotics are essentials for chronic conditions, which is not always necessary and are best avoided especially for minor illness.

 

Children constitute more than% of our population. Child health is the corner stone of the nation progress and the country which neglects the child, its future progress will be affected. The age group of 1-3 years of ages is a very important period of life as growth and development is rapid.

Many common illness are present in the under 10 children. it can be treated at home without needing to consult the doctor. Many minor illness such as common cold, fever vomiting, diarrhea, headache, earache, sore throat etc. can be treated at home using simple remedial measures without consulting the physicians.

 

STATEMENT OF THE STUDY:

A study to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme regarding the knowledge on home management of selected minor illness among mothers of under 10 children in a selected community in Palakkad District Kerala

 

OBJECTIVES:

·       To assess the pretest knowledge of mothers regarding the home management of selected minor illness.

·       To assess the post test knowledge of mothers regarding the home management of selected minor illness.

·       To determine the association between the level of knowledge of mothers regarding the home management of minor illness among selected minor illness.

·       To compare the pretest and posttest knowledge regarding home management of minor illness among mothers.

 

Method:

A pre experimental one group pretest post test design was used for the study. The mothers of under 10 children at Ambalappara after pretest a structured teaching programme was administered to the 50 subjects and on the third day post test was conducted with the same structured knowledge questionnaire. The collected was analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics.

 

RESULT:

The mean posttest knowledge score obtained is 29.6 was higher than the mean pretest knowledge score is 19.6. Paired t test was done to find out the difference between the mean pretest knowledge score, the calculated t value is (13.414) was found to be significant (p<0.0001) this shows that STP was effective in increasing the knowledge regarding the home management of minor illness.

 

 

Histogram showing the difference of pretest and post test knowledge percentage

INTERPRETATION AND CONCLUSION:

Finding of the study shows that the knowledge score of mothers of under 10 children at Ambalappara were less before the STP. The STP facilitated them to gain more knowledge about home management of minor illness, which was evident from the post test knowledge score. Hence this study implies that the STP is an effective strategy for providing information and to improve knowledge of mothers of under 10 children at Ambalappara Palakkad District. Kerala.

 

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Received on 19.10.2018          Modified on 12.11.2018

Accepted on 06.12.2018     © A&V Publications all right reserved