A study to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding selected water borne diseases among the mothers of under five children residing in selected areas of Distt. Mandi (HP)

A study to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding selected waterborne diseases among the mothers of under five children in selected areas of Distt. Mandi (H.P) was conducted by Shereyana, Shivani, Yanita toward the partial fulfilment of the requirement for the degree of bachelor in nursing at Abhilashi college of nursing. Water is universal healer. It is synonymous with life. A basic necessity, water is nature’s most generous gift to man. A quantitative research approach with quasi experimental design (non equivalent pretest post test control group design). The non purposive sampling technique was used to select 60 the mothers of under five children. Self structured questionnaire was used to assess the knowledge regarding waterborne diseases among the mothers of under five children. The find finding of the study revealed that in experimental group out of 30 mothers of under five children majority of 17(56.7%) had poor knowledge followed by 13(43.3%) had average knowledge. In comparison to pre-test knowledge of control group out of 30 mothers of under five children majority of 19(63.3%) had poor knowledge followed by 11(36.7%) had average knowledge. In post-test knowledge of experimental group out of 30 mothers of under five children majority of 22(73.3%) had good knowledge followed by 8(26.7%) had average knowledge. In comparison to post-test knowledge of control group out of 30 mothers of under five children majority of 18(60%) had average knowledge followed by 12(40%) had poor knowledge. The findings of the study concluded that knowledge of mothers of under five children was increased after implementation of structured teaching programme regarding selected waterborne diseases.