A Study to Evaluate the Effectiveness of I.E.C. regarding benefits about Blood Donation among community people in Madhapar village at Rajkot

 

Vivek Bhatt, B. Archana, Jeenath Justin Doss. K.

Shri Anand Institute of Nursing, Opp. Ghanteshwar Park, B/H Sainik Society, Jamnagar Road, Rajkot-360006.

 

ABSTRACT:

Blood is that magic portion which gives life to another person. Though we have tremendous discoveries and inventions in science, we are not yet able to make the magic portion called Blood. Human blood has no substitute. Requirement of safe blood is increasing and regular voluntary blood donations are vital for blood transfusion service Blood can save millions of life, and Young people are the hope and future of a safe blood supply in the world. The research design adopted was Pre-experimental. The conceptual framework for this study was Ludwig Von Bertalanfy general system model (1968) theory. The study has conducted in Madhapar village area, Rajkot. The sample size was 50 as an effectiveness of i.e.c. regarding benefits about blood donation.

The collected data were analyzed by using inferential statistical method. t- test was used to evaluate the effectiveness of i.e. regarding benefits about blood donation among madhapar village area. The obtained t-test value was 21.601 This showed highly significant at 0.001 levels. Hence their findings of the study revealed that the i.e.c. regarding benefits about blood donation among community peoples.

 

 

INTRODUCTION:

Blood is that magic portion which gives life to another person. Though we have tremendous discoveries and inventions in science, we are not yet able to make the magic portion called Blood. Human blood has no substitute. Requirement of safe blood is increasing and regular voluntary blood donations are vital for blood transfusion service^1. Blood can save millions of life, and Young people are the hope and future of a safe blood supply in the world.

 

NEED OF THE STUDY:

Voluntary blood donation, traditionally considered as a fulfilling task, seems to be losing its appeal. The heavy shortfall in blood supply encourages racketeering in blood and blood products. It also encourages blood donation for money, encouraging ‘professional’ donor ship. Professional donors come from weaker sections of the society.

 

The risk of infection is also high in blood collected from professional donors. The number of blood donors in U S in a year is 9.5million and the number of patient who receives blood is 5million. But 4.5million would die without life saving blood transfusion. According to Association of Voluntary Blood Donors’ Forum (AVBDF), the percentage of voluntary blood donation to the total blood collection shows a rapid decline in the number of donors throughout India.

 

OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY:

1    To assess the knowledge regarding benefits about blood donation among community people at selected village area.

2    To assess the effectiveness of I.E.C. regarding benefits and myths about blood donation among community people at selected village at Rajkot.

3    To find out the association between post test score with their selected demographic variables.

 

HYPOTHESIS:

H₁:   There will be a significant difference between pretest and posttest knowledge regarding benefits about blood donation.

H₂:   There will be significant association between posttest knowledge with their selected demographic variables.

 

MATERIALS AND METHODS:

RESEARCH DESIGN:

A Pre-experimental study, one group pre-test post-test research design.

 

VARIABLES:

Independent variable:

I.E.C. on benefits and myths about blood donation and demographic variables such as characteristics of community peoples such as age, gender, qualification, education, work status, and previous knowledge about benefits of blood donation.

 

Dependent variable:

Knowledge regarding benefits about blood donation.

 

SETTING OF THE STUDY:

The study was conducted in Atul Private Limited. Urban area of Rajkot.

 

POPULATION:

Working women at selected Madhapar village of Rajkot.

 

SAMPLING SIZE:

The sample size of the study was 50

 

SAMPLING TECHNIQUE:

Non probability purposive sampling technique: Samples were based on inclusion and exclusion criteria.

 

Data analysis:

The responses were analyzed through descriptive statistics (Frequency, percentage) and inferential statistics (t-test and Chi-Square).

 

Demographic Findings: -

·       The majority of 26 (65%) sample’s age is between 24-44years.

·       The majority of 35 (62.5%) samples are male.

·       The majority of 33 (57.5%) samples are having education of primary.

·       The majority of 41 (35%) samples are vegetarian.

·       The majority of 44 (955%) samples are getting information from mass media about blood donation

 

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION:

With regards to effectiveness of I.E.C regarding benefits about blood donation among community people, the obtained t-test was 21.601. That was significant at p<0.001 level.

 

CONCLUSION:

The main conclusion from this present study is that most of the community people had inadequate and moderate level of knowledge in pre-test and they improved to moderate and adequate level of knowledge in post-test. This shows the imperative need to understand the purpose of the I.E.C. regarding improving the knowledge about BENEFITS ABOUT BLOOD DONATION in improving knowledge about blood donation and community people will understand the value of blood donation and increase the ratio of blood donation through benefits about blood donation.

 

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Received on 10.10.2019          Modified on 30.11.2019

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