Effectiveness of Planned teaching Programme on Knowledge regarding Diarrhea and its associated Factors among Mothers of Under Five-year Children in selected Rural Area

Effectiveness of Planned teaching programme on knowledge regarding Diarrhea and its Associated factors among Mothers of Under five-year children in selected rural Area.

Primary Objective

1. To assess the pre-existing knowledge regarding diarrhea and its associated factors among mothers of under five-year children.

2. To find out association between knowledge score with their selected demographic variable.

Secondary Objective

3. To Evaluate the Effectiveness of Planned Teaching Programme Regarding Diarrhea and Its Associated Factors Among Mothers of Under Five Year Children.

Material and Methods

The research approach adopted in this study is quantitative approach. Quasi experimental research design one group pre test post test design was chosen for the study. The sample were selected conveniently to suit the study.sample size was 60.

Result

The data was analyzed by using inferential and descriptive statistics on the basis of objectives.

Section I: Demographic Variable

1. 30% of the mothers of Under five-year children had age below 23 years, 33.3% of them had age 23-26 years, 20% of them had age 27-30 years and 16.7% of them had age above 30 years.

2. 18.3% of them were graduation, 40% of them had higher secondary education, 30% of them had secondary education and 11.7% of them had primary education.

3. 5% of them were government employees, 11.7% of them were private employees, 6.7% of them were daily wagers, 8.3% of them were self-employed and 68.3% of them were home makers.

4. 30% of them had income above Rs.60000 and 70% of them had income Rs.30000-59000.

5. 30% of their children were affected with diarrhea.

6. 18.3% of them had open area laterin system and 81.7% of them had owned laterin system.

7. 36.7% of them had information about diarrhea from health professional, 21.7% of them had information from TV, radio, mobile, 25% of them had information from friends and family members and 16.7% of them had information from newspaper, books and poster.

Section II: Analysis of data related to the pre-existing knowledge regarding diarrhea and its associated factors among mothers of under five-year children

5% of the mothers of under five children had poor knowledge (Score 0-6), 26.7% of them had average knowledge (score 7-12) and 68.3% of them had good knowledge (score 13-18) regarding diarrhea and its associated factors.

Section III: Effectiveness of planned teaching programme regarding diarrhea and its associated factors among mothers of under five-year children.

In pretest, 5% of the mothers of under five children had poor knowledge (Score 0-6), 26.7% of them had average knowledge (score 7-12) and 68.3% of them had good knowledge (score 13-18) regarding diarrhea and its associated factors. In posttest, 78.3% of them had very good knowledge (score 19-24) and 21.7% of them had good knowledge (score 13-18) regarding diarrhea and its associated factors. This indicates that the knowledge among mothers of under five children improved remarkably after planned teaching program.

1. Researcher applied paired t-test for the effectiveness of planned teaching programme regarding diarrhea and its associated factors among mothers of under five-year children. Average knowledge score in pretest was 13.9 which increased to 22.7 in posttest. T-value for this test was 26 with 59 degrees of freedom. Corresponding p-value was small (less than 0.05), the null hypothesis is rejected. Average knowledge score in posttest was significantly more than that in pretest. It is evident that the planned teaching program is significantly effective in improving the knowledge regarding diarrhea and its associated factors among mothers of under five children.

2. The frequency and percentage of correct responses by mothers of under five children to each knowledge item regarding associated factors of diarrhea. It indicates that the correct responses increased for knowledge item after planned teaching program.

Section IV: Analysis of data related to association between knowledge regarding diarrhea and its associated factors among mothers of under five children with their selected demographic variable

Since p-values corresponding to all the demographic variables were large (greater than 0.05), none of the demographic variables was found to have significant association with the knowledge regarding diarrhea and its associated factors among mothers of under five children.

Conclusion

The study was done to assess the knowledge regarding prevention of diarrhea among the mothers of under five-year children. The results of this study shows that in pretest 3 (05 %) of the mothers had poor knowledge, 16 (26.7%) mothers had average 82 knowledge, 41 (68.3%) mothers had good knowledge, 0 (0 %) of the mothers had very good and 0% of mothers had excellent knowledge regarding diarrhea and its associated factors. The post test score is 0% of mothers had poor level of knowledge score is, 0% of mothers had average level of knowledge score, 0 (0 %) of mothers had good level of knowledge score, 47(78.3 %) of mothers had very good level of knowledge, 13 (21.7 %) had excellent level of knowledge. Thus, it was concluded that Planned teaching program on knowledge regarding diarrhea and its associated factors was found effective as a teaching strategy.