International Journal of Advances in Nursing Management
  • Year: 2020
  • Volume: 8
  • Issue: 1

To Assess the Effectiveness of Planned Health Teaching on the Knowledge regarding Prevention of Chikungunya among adults Population in Selected Rural areas at Jamnagar

Assistant Professor, Shri Anand Institute of Nursing, Rajkot, Gujarat

*Corresponding Author E-mail: archanareddy252@gmail.com

Online published on 24 February, 2020.

Abstract

To assess the effectiveness of planned health teaching on the knowledge regarding prevention of chikungunya among Adults Population in selected rural areas at Jamnagar. The objectives of the study were a) To assess the knowledge regarding prevention of chikungunya among Adults population in selected rural areas. b) To assess the effectiveness of planned health teaching on the knowledge regarding prevention of chikungunya among Adults population in selected rural areas. c) To find out the association between Post test level of knowledge with their selected demographic variables. A quantitative research approach was used in the study to assess the effectiveness of planned health teaching on knowledge regarding prevention of chikungunya in selected rural areas at Jamnagar. The comparison between Pre test and Post test knowledge score Obtained by the samples on planned health teaching. The mean Pre test score 7.57 and the mean Post test score is 20.5. The mean difference between Pre test and Post test knowledge score is 12.93. The table also shows that the standard deviation of Pre test knowledge score is 1.92 and Post test is 0.344. The calculated ‘t’ is 34.480 and the tabled ‘t’ is 3.55 with 39 df. At p<0.001 level of significance.

Keywords

Chikungunya, Adults, Planned Health Teaching