A study to assess the effectiveness of self instructional module (SIM) on knowledge regarding prevention of chikungunya among women’s in selected urban area of Jaipur, Rajasthan

Chikungunya is a re-emerging mosquito-borne viral infection that has spread from East Africa to Indian Ocean islands and re-emerged in India since 2004 and there are outbreaks all over the world. The National Vector Borne Disease Board of India, given prime importance to educate the public in general and women in specific on prevention against injections of Mosquito; since Mosquito control is the main outbreak control activity of Chikungunya. A Quasi - experimental research, pretest-post-test research design is used in present study. Self instructional module (SIM) to assess the effectiveness on prevention of Chikungunya. Simple random probability sampling method is adopted for selecting the 60 Women’s In Selected Urban Area of Jaipur, Rajasthan.” After conducting pre-test, Self Instructional Module (SIM) is administered and after 1 week, post -test is conducted to assess the effectiveness of SIM on knowledge of Women’s Regarding Prevention of Chikungunya. The mean pre-test score was 14.32 and mean post-test knowledge score was26.7 the association of knowledge score with selected socio-demographic characteristics is calculated with the help of chi-square test, and statistically, non significant association is found at the level of p< 0.005.