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A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on Self Care Management of Diabetes Mellitus among Elderly People in Ughanpur, Baheri at Bareilly

Darpan Dixit, Dr. Rajendra Kumar Sharma

Abstract: The present study has been undertaken to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on self - care management of diabetes mellitus among elderly people in Ughanpur, Baheri at Bareilly?. A pre - experimental design and evaluative approach was used in the study. The data was collected from 60 subjects through on probability purposive sampling technique. Data was collected using structured questionnaire. The focus of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching program on knowledge regarding self care management of diabetes mellitus among elderly people at selected health care settings, Bareilly, U. P. The overall analysis of level of knowledge of elderly people regarding self - care management of diabetes mellitus showed that mean knowledge scores of the subjects at pre - test were17.47 (58.23%) with the standard deviation of 4.131found to be moderate knowledge regarding self - care management of diabetes mellitus. After administration of Structured Teaching Program mean knowledge scores of the subjects was 23.02 (76.73%) with standard deviation of 3.912found to be improvement in the level of knowledge among elderly people. Among the participants26.7% of the elderly people had inadequate knowledge and 70% had moderate knowledge in the pretest. After administration of the structured teaching program 50% of the subjects had adequate knowledge, 46.7% had moderate knowledge regarding self - care management of diabetes mellitus in the post test.

Keywords: Knowledge, elderly people, self - care management of diabetes mellitus, structured teaching program

Edition: Volume 12 Issue 12, December 2023

Pages: 599 - 604

DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.21275/ES231207102009

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