A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Structure Teaching Program on Knowledge Regarding covid-19 and Perinatal care of Mother among Nursing Students in selected Nursing Colleges at Mysuru

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The aim of study is to determine the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding covid-19 and perinatal care of mother among nursing students in selected College at Mysuru. OBJECTIVES: To assess the knowledge regarding covid-19 and perinatal care of mother among Nursing students. 1. To assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding covid-19 and perinatal care of mother among Nursing students. 2. To find out association between pre-test knowledge level regarding covid19 and perinatal care of mother among Nursing students with their selected personal variables. METHODS: In this study, one group is pre-test and post-test, pre-experimental design was used and purposive sampling technique was adopted to select nursing students JSS College of Nursing, Mysuru. Pilot study was conducted, the tool and study design were found to be feasible. Data were collected using self-administered knowledge questionaries. structured teaching programme were given to nursing students. The Data were collected and analyses using descriptive and inferential statistics. RESULT: The result of study reveals that the that 27(90%) Nursing students are in the age group of 20-23 years and 03(10%) Nursing students are in the group of 24-26 years and the 16(53.4%) having previous source of information from MassMedia, and 10(33.3%) having previous source of information from teaching and 4(13.3%) not having previous source of information. In pre-test majority 46.7% of them have average knowledge, 43.3%were have good knowledge and 10% of them have poor knowledge were as in the post-test 36.67% of them have average knowledge and 63.33% of them have good knowledge and none of them have poor knowledge in post-test. The significance of difference between the mean pre-test and post-test scores which was statistically tested using paired ‘t’ test. The mean difference between the mean pre-test and mean post-test knowledge scores was 2.9 with standard deviation difference+/-1.594. The paired “t” test (29) 3.53*which was found to be significant at 0.05 level of significance. The result also shows that the knowledge score of Nursing students had no association with selected personnel variable accept previous knowledge regarding covid-19 and perinatal care of mother. CONCLUSION: Therefore, the study concluded that the administration of structured teaching programme was an effective method of improve the knowledge of Nursing students regarding covid19 and perinatal care of mother.