Effectiveness of teaching programme on round worm infestation among middle school children at a rural setting

A Study was conducted to assess the Effectiveness of teaching programme on worm infestation among middle school children at a rural areas at Erode. The research design was pre experimental study. 60 school children's were selected for this study by using non probability purposive sampling technique. Pilot study was conducted to find out the feasibility of the study & to planned for data analysis. Pre and post assessment was done using the structured questionnaire. 60 school children's were selected. planned teaching programme was given to middle school. A study to assess the effectiveness of teaching programme on worm infestation among middle children about 45 minutes by using adequate audio visual aids and 10 minutes was given for discussion. The data were collected after seven days by using same questionnaire schedule to find out the effectiveness of teaching progarmme. Descriptive statistics (frequency, percentage, mean & standard deviation) & inferential statistics (chi-square, Paired ‘t ’test) were used to analyze the data & to test the hypotheses. The data on pre test knowledge on round worm infestation among middle school children shows that out of 60 samples, 10% had inadequate knowledge, 74% had moderately adequate knowledge, 16%were adequate knowledge on worm infestation. The improvement of knowledge on worm infestation of school children in post 25 (25%) had moderate knowledge, 75 (75%) had adequate knowledge, no one had inadequate knowledge. The results shows that their was improvement in overall in aspects of knowledge on worm infestation at the level of p < 0.001.