Ph.D Scholar,
Diabetes is becoming the epidemic of the 21st century. Type 2 diabetes, which is more prevalent (more than 90% of all diabetes cases) and the main driver of the diabetes epidemic, now affects 5.9% of the world's adult population with almost 80% of the total in developing countries. In addition to this, the complications and associated with diabetes is also in the higher rate.
The aim of study is to compare the effectiveness of of video assisted teaching Vs Self instructional module on quality of life among type 2 diabetes.
The research approach adopted for the present study is an Quantitative research approach and the design adopted was quasi experimental design. The setting for the study was Crescent Hospital, Alathur. Palakkad, Kerala. The sample size of the present study was 50 used simple random sampling technique to select samples.
The Pre-test mean Score and Standard Deviation of the type2 diabetes regarding video assisted teaching on quality of life was 55.84 & 6.95, which increased in post test 75.76 and 6.54. pre test mean Score and Standard Deviation of the type 2 diabetes regarding Self-instructional module on quality of life was 54.4 and 4.203, which increased in post test 66.68 and 13.524.
The present study results shows that comparatively the video assisted teaching is more effective in promoting Quality of life than Self-instructional module.
Self instructional module(SIM), Video assisted teaching(VAT), Effectiveness, Compare, Quality of life(QOL), Type 2 diabetes
