Effect of Structured Teaching Programme (STP) on Knowledge of Caretakers of School Children Regarding Selected Skin Diseases among Primary School Children in Selected Rural Residential Schools

Skin diseases are a common cause of morbidity, especially among school children, worldwide. A variety of skin infections may occur in children in the school age group. The various acute and chronic conditions which can be encountered during school period anywhere in the world include scabies, dermatitis, impetigo, pediculosis, warts, furuncle, and fungal infections. The best prevention and management of skin infections among school children include, early identification of infections, isolating and immunizing the affected children¹.

Quasi-experimental pre test post test control group design.

Non probability convenience sampling technique was adopted to select 60 care takers of school children, both in experimental and control group.

Proforma for selected personal variables, and structured knowledge questionnaire regarding the identification, management and prevention of selected skin diseases.

The result of the study revealed that the significance of difference between the mean pre test and post test knowledge score in experimental group which was statistically tested using paired ‘t’ test and was found to be highly significant at 0.05 level of significance (t₍₂₉₎=39.07;p<0.05 and the significance of difference between the mean post test knowledge scores between experimental and control group which was statistically tested using independent ‘t’ test was found to be highly significant at 0.05 level of significance (t₍₅₈₎=33.33; p<0.05). The result also shown that the knowledge scores of care takers of school children had no significant association with their selected personal variables.

Therefore, the study concluded that structured teaching programme was effective in increasing the knowledge of care takers of school children.