A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Structural Teaching Program on Knowledge and Attitude of Nurses Regarding Fecal Microbial Therapy (FMT) in Selected Hospitals of Pune City

The rapidly emergent field of microbial research, i.e. studies of the diverse microbial communities, their genomes and interactions within and on the human host, has increased our vision for the impact of microbial community composition and function on a variety of human diseases ranging from metabolic to organ dysfunction. Recent advances in sequencing methods have revealed that the gut microbiota have an important role to play in health and disease. The most novel discovery identified regarding use of fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) as an “ecological” therapy for several gut diseases

Present study has done on 50 samples selected randomly in hospital of Pune city. The population consists of staff nurses who are working with Medical and Surgical department in tertiary care hospital. The sample were selected by using random sampling. Pretest was given to all 50 participants followed by planned teaching program on Fecal Microbial Therapy (FMT). After a period of 2 week, post-test was given to same participants and results. The group were undergone pre-test and Effectiveness of teaching plan on Fecal Microbial Therapy (FMT) was determined by using T-Test (post-test comparison). Chi-square test was used to determine the association between socio-demographical variables and poste test score.

Results showed that, out of 50 subjects, 80% were female and 20% were male. Majority of subjects (84%) were in age group of 25 to 30 and 16% were in age group of above 40 years. Even the selected hospital has NABH accreditation but none of any staff has received in service education related to medication error. Independent T-Test results showed that there is significant difference between the pre and post test score (p<.005).