Lecturer, Department of Child Health Nursing, Nightingale Institute of Nursing, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
*Corresponding author: Mrs. Anugrah Charan, Lecturer, Department of Child Health Nursing, Nightingale Institute of Nursing, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India. Email id: charan.anugrah@gmail.com
Online published on 17 April, 2015.
The past few decades have witnessed large and sustained decreases in child mortality in most low and middle-income countries. However, an estimated 10.6 million children under the age of five still die each year from preventable or treatable conditions1. A large proportion of these deaths could be prevented through early, appropriate and low-cost treatment of sick children in the home or community. Improvements in care at health facilities through IMNCI and other initiatives are necessary.2
Developing a Structured Teaching Programme (STP) for the ASHA workers regarding the case management of children with diarrhea at home situation as per IMNCI guidelines, assessing and evaluating knowledge and practice of ASHA workers, determining relationship between post test Knowledge and Practices.
Mean post test knowledge scores and practice scores of ASHA workers will be significantly higher than the mean pre-test knowledge and practice scores, significant association between post test knowledge and practice scores of ASHA workers at 0.05 Level of Significance.
A pre-experimental study was carried out among ASHA workers and structured interview schedule as well as structured express practice interview schedule was used to collect the information. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used for the data analysis in terms of mean, median standard deviation, “t” test and coefficient of correlation.
Mean post test knowledge score (23.2) is higher than the mean pre-test knowledge score (17.06), Mean post-test practices scores (22.8) is higher than the mean pre-test practice scores (16.5) and Coefficient of Correlation between Post-test Knowledge scores and Post-test Practice scores of ASHA workers was 0.80.
Structured Teaching Programme was effective in enhancing the knowledge and practices of ASHA workers regarding the Case management of children with diarrhea at home situation as per IMNCI guidelines.
ASHA works, IMNCI, Diarrhea, Case management
