To Assess the Effectiveness of Information Booklet on Knowledge of Mothers Regarding Home Management of Common Illness among Children Aged 2 Months to 5 Years in the Group

Abstract

Background: Care for children is often the responsibility of mothers. Mothers’ awareness of child caretherefore determines the type and standard of care had given to the children. Many studies had shownthe level of education of mothers had a positive effect on their own experience and how they deal withhealth issues of children. Objectives: 1. To assess the pre-test knowledge of the mothers regarding homemanagement of select common illness of children aged between 2 months and 5 years. 2. To evaluate theinformation of booklet on knowledge regarding home management of selected common illness of childrenaged between 2 months and 5 years. 3. To associate the post test knowledge score of mothers regardinghome management of the common childhood illness among children aged between 2 months and 5 yearswith selected demographic variables. Methodology: One group pre-test and post-test design was used.Participants were consisted of 50 mothers of children aged between 2 months and 5 years. Result: Overallmean knowledge score in pre-test and post-test which reveals the post-test knowledge score was higher i.e.18.16 with the SD of ± 1.68 when the compared to pre-test knowledge score which was 9.24 with the SDof ± 2.90. The statistical paired ‘t’ test implies the difference in the pre-test and post-test knowledge scorefound to be 21.06 statistically significant at the level 0.05%.Conclusion: It was statistically interpreted as had been accurate information booklet for the knowledge ofmothers of home management for the chronic illness of children age between 2 months and 5 years.