A Study to assess the effectiveness of the Planned teaching Programme on Knowledge regarding management of convulsion in children among Mother’s of under five year Children in selected area of Mehsana City
Dr. Dayalal Patidar1, Mr. Kaushal Patidar2, Ms. Disha Modi3
1Principal, Joitiba College of Nursing , Bhandu, Dist: Mehsana.
2Associate Professor, Joitiba College of Nursing, Bhandu, Dist: Mehsana.
3Final Year M.Sc. Nursing Students, Joitiba College of Nursing, Bhandu, Dist: Mehsana.
*Corresponding Author E-mail: kaush776@gmail.com, dishasunilmodi@gmail.com
ABSTRACT:
Introduction: Children under five years of age are very small and their all systems are in developing stage. Because of their play activities, poor feedings and immaturity of immune system causes frequent attack of infections like respiratory tract infection, otitis media, diarrhoea, gastroenteritis etc. Fever is a common manifestation present in most of the infection. In some children severe fever can result convulsion. Convulsion disorder is a common neurological problem in children. Many convulsions disorders have their origin in childhood. Nearly two-third of seizure disorder can be treated easily by them without the need for the specialist. (WHO2012). Design: A quantitative approach using pre experimental pre-test post-test design with one group. Participants: 100 selected mothers’s of under five year children using Non-Probability Convenient sampling technique in Mehsana city. Tool: Self- Structured Knowledge Questionnaire. Results: The data were analyzed and interpreted in the light of objectives and inferential statistical in terms of mean, standard deviation, ‘t’ test and chi square test value. in this study over all the highest percentage in the demographic data including the regarding age group majority 40% belong to age group between (21-25 year), regarding religion majority 70% of Hindu, regarding educational status majority 35% of higher secondary education, regarding occupation majority 45% of house wife, regarding monthly income of family majority 40% of above 15000/-, regarding type of family majority 87% of nuclear family, regarding previous knowledge majority 55% of no any previous knowledge of mother’s, regarding first source of information majority 88% of health worker. The mean differences was 5.86 and the obtained ‘t’ value 27.11, which significant at 0.05 level. Hence, the stated hypothesis was accepted. Conclusion: The findings of the study revealed that sample have average knowledge about management of convulsion in children among mothers of under five year children.
KEYWORDS: Assess, effectiveness, planned teaching programme, Knowledge, management of convulsion, children, and mother’s of under five year children,
INTRODUCTION:
Back ground of the study:
Children comprise one third of our population and all of our future and their health is our foundation. The childhood period is also a vital period because many of the health problems will arise from this period and most of the studies reveal that many children are suffering from one or the other disease. Our responsibility is to maintain certain specific biological and psychological needs to ensure the survival and healthy development of the child, future adult and also to maintain optimum health of the children to enjoy their childhood. But unfortunately children are at risk of diseases, the reason may be many. One of such disease is seizure disorder which threatens life of the child.1
Prevalence of seizure disorders in the countries are, in India it is 360/100,000,in Japan it is 89/1000 in children younger than 13 years, in Peru it is 2016/100,000 in children younger than 15 years and 10.1% is estimated to be life time prevalence of febrile convulsion in India. Iranian journal of public health says that in 4 a study the life time prevalence of febrile convulsion was 32/1000 population, approximately 60% of case reported febrile convulsion as the presumptive cause (National Survey).2
A cross sectional study in Andhra Pradesh showed that the prevalence rate of epilepsy as 6.2/1000 population, where as in Kerala it is 4.9/1000population.School age children are most affected with a slight male preponderance. In America 300,000 people have a first convulsion each year and 120,000 of them are under the age of eighteen (Manikam K, 2011).3
Another treatment option for epilepsy is surgical removal of the brain tissue where the seizures originate (i.e., temporal lobectomy) but this technique is not often used in children. Another possible preventive measure for epilepsy in children is avoidance of triggers for seizures. Many children with epilepsy have triggers for seizures such as foods, scents, or other environmental factors. If these triggers can be identified, seizures may be more easily controlled. When used in some combination, all of these treatment methods have shown effectiveness, however, there are few treatments that keep individuals entirely seizure free (Wongs).4
Problem statement:
“A study to assess the effectiveness of the planned teaching programme on knowledge regarding management of convulsion in children among mother’s of under five year children in selected area of Mehsana city.”
OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY:
1. To Assess the Knowledge regarding management of convulsion in children among mother’s of under five year children.
2. To evaluate the effectiveness of planned teaching programme on knowledge regarding management of convulsion in children among mother’s of under five year children.
3. To find out the association between the knowledge of mother’s of under five year children with their selected demographic variables.
HYPOTHESES:
H0: There will be no significant relationship between pre-test and posttest knowledge regarding management of convulsion in children among mother’s of under five year children at 0.05 level of significance.
H1: There will be significant difference between pretest and posttest knowledge scores after administration of planned teaching programme among mother’s of under five year children 0.05 level of significant.
RESULT:
The data were analyzed and interpreted in the light of objectives and inferential statistical in terms of mean, standard deviation,‘t’ test and chi square test value. in this study over all the highest percentage in the demographic data including the regarding age group majority 40% belong to age group between (21-25 year), regarding religion majority 70% of Hindu ,regarding educational status majority 35% of higher secondary education, regarding occupation majority 45% of house wife, regarding monthly income of family majority 40% of above 15000/- , regarding type of family majority
87% of nuclear family, regarding previous knowledge majority 55% of no any previous knowledge of mother’s, regarding first source of information majority 88% of health worker. The mean differences was 5.86 and the obtained ‘t’ value 27.11, which significant at 0.05 level. Hence, the stated hypothesis was accepted.
|
Sr. No |
Level of Knowledge |
Mean |
Mean difference |
Standard deviation |
“t” test |
|
1. |
Pre – test |
10.11 |
5.86 |
1.44 |
27.71 |
|
2. |
Post- test |
15.97 |
1.55 |
These findings demonstrated that there was no significant association between post test knowledge score with their selected demographic variables.
CONCLUSION:
The main conclusion from this present study is that most of the people had poor knowledge regarding management of convulsion in children in pre test and had improved to get extent after intervention which was revealed in post test. This shows the imperative need to understand the utilities of planned teaching programme in improvement of knowledge regarding management of convulsion in children among mother are of under five year children.
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Received on 13.10.2020 Modified on 12.11.2020
Accepted on 09.12.2020 © AandV Publications all right reserved
Int. J. Nur. Edu. and Research. 2021; 9(1):14-16.
DOI: 10.5958/2454-2660.2021.00004.1