A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme (STP) on Knowledge Regarding Aspiration Pneumonia among Mothers of Infant at Selected Hospital in Maharashtra

“A study to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme (STP) on knowledge regarding aspiration pneumonia among mothers of infant at selected hospital in Maharashtra.”

Objectives

Primary Objective

To assess the effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on knowledge regarding aspiration pneumonia among mothers of infant at selected hospital in Maharashtra.

Secondary Objectives

1.    To assess the existing level of Knowledge regarding selected aspiration pneumonia among infant.

2.    To find out the association between the pre-test level of Knowledge score regarding aspiration pneumonia with their selected demographic variables.

Material and Methods

The study design is pre-experimental research design, one group pre-test post-test research design, so there is no comparison or control group. The investigator will administer pre-test and post-test on the same group.

Results

The major findings of the study show that the Pre-test & Post Test means of the knowledge was done by the Paired t test. The pre-test Average Mean knowledge score was 10.18 with standard deviation of 3.29%. And the post-test Average Mean knowledge score was 18.28 with standard deviation of 2.83%. The test statistics value of the unpaired t test was 14.45 with p value was 0.0001. The p value less than 0.05 hence reject the null hypothesis and accept the alternative hypothesis.

A study was conducted to assess the knowledge on aspiration pneumonia awareness, evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme and to associate the knowledge of mothers of infant with that of demographic variables.

The experimental design was selected for the study. Data were collected from 60 randomly selected samples by using the structured interview schedule. After structured teaching programme the paired’t’ value was 14.45 with the p<0.0001 which is highly significant. So, there is an improvement knowledge on aspiration pneumonia among mothers of infant. There is an association of level of knowledge with demographic variables. The effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme was improved than pre-test.

Conclusion

Based on the analysis of the findings of the study, the following inference was drawn. There was gain in knowledge scores after administration of structured teaching programme. There was significant association of selected demographic variables. Thus, it was concluded that effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding aspiration pneumonia was found effective as a teaching strategy. The comparison of pre test & post test knowledge scores showed that there was significant gain in knowledge of mothers.

Overall, carrying out the present study was really an enriching experience for the investigator. The direction from the guide, various experts & cooperation of the participants played a major role in successful completion of the study.

At the time of pre-test, none of mothers of infant had good knowledge regarding aspiration pneumonia, 65% of mothers of infant had poor knowledge and 35% had average knowledge. Average knowledge score at the time of conducting a study was 10.18 with standard deviation of 3.29.

At the time of post test, none of mothers had poor knowledge regarding aspiration pneumonia, 80% mothers had average knowledge and 20% had good knowledge. Average knowledge score at the time of post test was 18.28 with standard deviation of 2.83.

Thus, it was concluded that effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding aspiration pneumonia was found effective as a teaching strategy.