Effectiveness of Planned Teaching Program on Knowledge Regarding the Management of Hospital aquired Infections in Children.

Abstract

In the present study, data were collected on knowledge regarding management of Hospital Aquierd infections inchildren. The objective of the study is to identify the knowledge of B.Sc Nursing students regarding the managementof Hospital aquired infections in children and to determine the association between post-test knowledge scores withselected demographic variables.The research method adopted for this study is the evaluative approach. The researchdesign adopted for this study was a pre-experimental design with one group pretest and post-test design. A simplerandom technique was used to select the sample for the study. The sample consists of 60 B.Sc Nursing students ofNursing institutions. The instrument used for the data collection is a structured questionnaire. Collected data wereanalyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics.The results of the study showed that the pretest overall knowledgescore regarding various aspects of management of Hospital Aquierd infections in children was a mean percentage of46.86% and SD was 3.51. During the post–the test overall knowledge score was 80.53% and SD was 2.98.Hence thedifference between pretest and post-test over a knowledge score was 33.67. The results show that the difference betweenthe pretest and post-test knowledge scores for the management of Hospital Aquierd infections in children is statisticallysignificant and this difference is due to planned teaching program in the management of Hospital Aquierd infections inchildren. The conclusion was drawn on the basis of the following findings of the study. This study shows that there wasa significant improvement in the knowledge of management of infections in children among B.Sc Nursing students asevidenced and post-test knowledge scores.