M.B, HOD,
Less than 1% of the general public know how to assess or manage someone who has collapsed. It has been estimated that if 15–20% of the population were capable of performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), mortality of out of hospital cardiac arrest could be decreased significantly. Training cardio pulmonary resuscitation (BLS) skills to school children would be the most cost effective way of achieving this goal and ensuring that a large proportion of the population acquire basic life saving skills. Pre experimental one group pre test-post test design was used to assess the effectiveness of video assisted teaching programme on knowledge regarding Cardio pulmonary resuscitation among high school children in selected school at Mysore. A structured questionnaire was prepared and used to assess the effectiveness of video assisted teaching program. The study was carried out in SNS High school, Mysore, through simple random sampling technique using lottery method, 60 high school students were selected. Structured knowledge Questionnaire was administered to collect the needed data. Data was analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics. With regard to the knowledge assessment, the mean pre test score was 8.9 and post test score was 17.6. The mean difference between pre-test score and post test score was 8.7. The computed paired‘t’ value was 23.40 (p<0.05) and it was significant at 5% level. This showed that VAT on knowledge regarding cardio pulmonary resuscitation was effective. Therefore the research hypothesis (H1) is accepted, i.e. there is significant difference between mean pre-test and mean post-test knowledge score.
Knowledge, Cardio pulmonary resuscitation; VAT
