International Journal of Advances in Nursing Management

In the present study pre-experimental with one group pre-test and post-test design was adopted. The sample size of the study was 60 were selected by random sampling technique. The pre-test and post-test was conducted using the structured knowledge questionnaire. The data was analysed and interpreted based on descriptive and inferential statistics. Paired ‘t’ test was used to find the effectiveness of structured teaching program and Chi-square test was used to find the association of pre-test knowledge score with selected demographic variables.

For the present study the significant findings were, 63.3% of them were in the age 20 years, 93.3% were female, 63.3% of them were Hindu, about 78.3% belonged to urban area, 76.7% of participants had previous knowledge about anticoagulation therapy, and 52.2% of them had source of knowledge from clinical experience. The total mean percentage of pre-test knowledge score was 47.43%, with mean±SD of 14.23±1.94 and the total post-test knowledge score was 77.23%, with mean±SD of 23.317±1.742 showing an effectiveness of 30.28%, with mean±SD of 9.08±2.81, significance of difference between pre-test and post- test score was statistically tested by using paired ‘t’ test and is found very highly significant (t=25.021, p= 0.001), there was no association between pre-test knowledge score and demographic variables.