A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Awareness Programme in Term of Knowledge Regarding Early Symptoms of Myocardial Infarction among Bank Employees of Selected Banks at Moradabad, U.P.

In the developing countries like India, Myocardial Infarction is one of the leading causes of deaths. The prevalence of Myocardial Infarction has increased from 40 per 1000 in 1968 to nearly 110 per 1000 in 2001. The prevalence of coronary heart disease in urban population has increased from 3.5 per cent in 1960’s to 9.5 per cent in 1990’s and in rural areas it has been increased from 2 per cent in 1970’s to 4 per cent in 1990’s. In the year 2005, it was estimated that 30 per cent of deaths in India were due to coronary syndrome.

A quantitative research approach was used. The research design adopted for the present study was Qausi experimental design. The target population for the study was bank employees of selected banks of moradabad. There were two groups (experimental and control group). Sample were bank employees and sample size were 30 in experimental group and 30 in control group. The sampling technique used for this was non probability purposive sampling. The structured knowledge questionnaire was prepared to assess the knowledge regarding early symptoms of MI. Data analysis was done by both descriptive and inferential statistics on the basis of objectives and hypothesis of study.

The result show that in experimental group 66.67% of the bank employees were having moderate knowledge, 26.67% of the bank employees had inadequate knowledge and 6.66% of the bank employees had adequate knowledge in pre test. Whereas 96.67% of the bank employees had adequate knowledge, 3.33% of the bank employees had moderate knowledge in post test. On the other hand in control group, 2/3(70%) of the bank employees had moderate knowledge 20% of the bank employees had inadequate knowledge and 10% of the bank employees had adequate knowledge in pre test. Whereas 66.67% of the bank employees had moderate knowledge, 23.34% of the bank employees had inadequate knowledge test, 10% of the bank employees had adequate knowledge in post test. In experimental group mean pre-test knowledge scores 13.94 of bank employees was lesser than the post test mean score 25.77. The mean difference obtained between the pretest and post test was 11.83 while the ‘t’ value was statistically significant at 0.05 level. The post test mean score of experimental group was 25.77 while the mean score of control group was 13.56. The mean difference between the post test knowledge score of experimental group and control group was 12.21. The ‘t’ value was statistically significant at 0.05 level. It shows that there was a significant difference between post test knowledge of experimental group and control group. There is significant association between knowledge regarding early symptoms of MI with their selected demographic variables is self education and presence of disease.

The conclusion of this study stated that, there are majority of bank employees at high risk of MI, and bank employees were not having sufficient knowledge regarding early symptoms of myocardial infarction and the health awareness programme was effective in terms of increment in knowledge among bank employees.