Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on Knowledge Regarding Prevention of Complications of Coronary Artery Disease among Patients with CAD

Abstract

Cardiovascular diseases are the world's number one killers, claiming 17.5 million life a year globally. In the WHO South-East Asia Region, cardiovascular diseases cause an estimated 3.7 million deaths annually, or one fourth of all deaths. While the prevalence and mortality due to Cardiovascular diseases is declining in the developed nations the same cannot be held true for developing countries. There has been an alarming increase over the past two decades in the prevalence of cardiovascular disease and cardiovascular mortality in India and other south Asian countries. The present study aims at effectiveness of structured teaching programme on prevention of complications of coronary artery disease among patients with CAD. This study was pre-experimental study conducted among patients with CAD. A total of 30 samples were selected by using non-probability purposive sampling technique. The data were collected by using structured knowledge questionnaire on prevention of complications of CAD. The mean post test score of knowledge (21.96) is higher than mean pretest score of knowledge (17.23) among patients with CAD. The structured teaching programme was found to be effective in increasing the knowledge on prevention of complications of CAD. This indicates that the planned teaching program is an effective strategy which can be used to increase the knowledge on prevention of complications of coronary artery disease among patients with CAD.