Effectiveness of Self Instructional Module on Knowledge RegardingOsteoporosis among Post-Menopausal Women Residing at Rural CommunityArea, Bengaluru

Abstract

Menopause is a natural life event which results in lower level of estrogen and leads to osteoporosis and heart disease. The present study was undertaken to assess the existing knowledge of post-menopausal women and the effectiveness of self-instructional module SIM regarding osteoporosis and to find the association between selected demographic variables.Methods Pre- experimental design was selected and pre-test amp post-test design was considered most suitable to assess the evaluation of self-instructional module on osteoporosis. About 60 post-menopausal women were present and probability simple random sampling technique was used at selected rural areas of Bidadi. Data was collected compiled tabulated and analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics.Results Regarding effectiveness of SIM 40.4 was the pre-test mean knowledge score followed by post-test score of 83.3 with mean enhancement of knowledge score of 42.9 which was statistically significant. The Paired rsquotrsquo test was computed and it was 34.61 which was higher than the table value and was significant at 5 level. There was significant association between pre-test scores and demographic variables like education occupation and family income at 5 level.