A Study to Assess effectiveness of The Planned Teaching Programme on Knowledge regarding Recommendation to The Barrier of Immunization among mothers of underfive children in selected hospital, Rajkot.

Abstract

A study to assess the effectiveness of planned teaching programme on recommendation to the barrier of immunization among mothers of under-five children in selected area of Rajkot was conducted by Dhara Sangada., in partial fulfilment as a requirement for the Master of science in Nursing, Saurashtra University during year 2023.Objectives of the study: 1). To assess the existing knowledge of mother of under five children regarding recommendation to the barrier of immunization. 2). To assess the effectiveness of the planned teaching programme on knowledge regarding recommendation to the barrier of immunization among mother of under five children in selected hospital. 3). To find out the association between knowledge score and selected demographic variables. The research design of the study is pre- experimental research design with one group pretest and posttest. Total 60 mothers were taken who have under 5 children, Non-probability convenient sampling technique was used to select the mothers. The conceptual model of the study was general system model. The study was conducted at Akshar child care hospital. Collected. Data was analyzed descriptive statistics such as mean, standard deviation, frequencies and percentages. The association between effectiveness of planned teaching programme will be analyzed by t-test. The obtained “t-test” value for the level of knowledge on regarding recommendation to the barrier of immunization 17.407 that was highly significance at p<0.05 level the hypothesis was accepted. The chi-square value of mothers of under-five children knowledge recommendation to the barriers of immunization with their social status and marital status which shows there was significance association exist between knowledge score with their selected demographic variables and other demographic variables such as age, education, religion, number of children, source of information of recommendation to the barriers of immunization and type of family did not show significance association. Hence H2 were accepted.