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Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on Knowledge regarding First Aid Management of Selected Bites and Stings among the Mothers of under Five Children at Bhubaneswar, Odisha

Chinmayee Pradhan, Surama Barik

Abstract: Improving knowledge and attitude of the mothers will increase their motivation and self - competence in conducting first aid measures for their children. Therefore; aiming to achieve self - care behavior of caregivers, the objectives of this study were: to evaluate maternal knowledge regarding first aid management of bite and stings of under five children. A one group pretest posttest pre - experimental design was conducted on mothers. The data was collected from 60 mothers by non - probability purposive sampling technique by using closed ended multiple questionnaires. The collected data were analyzed by using descriptive and infertial statistics. The level of knowledge of mother regarding first aid management revealed that in pre - test that 3.3% mother had POOR knowledge, 56.7% mother had the AVERAGE knowledge, 33.3% children had GOOD knowledge and only 6.7% mother had Excellent knowledge. In the post - test shows that POOR knowledge reduced to 1.7%, AVERAGE knowledge reduced to 13.3% whereas GOOD knowledge increased to 58.3% and excellent knowledge increased to 26.7%. The paired ?t? test was calculated to find out the difference between pre and posttest knowledge score, the result showed that paired ?t? value was highly significant than the table value at p< 0.05 level of significance i. e., the calculated ?t? value is 7.773. The Chi square test proved there was no significant association between pretest knowledge score among mother of under five children when compared to age, religion, mother?s education, mother?s occupation, monthly family income, type of family, type of house, type of domestic animals, previous knowledge and source of knowledge at 5% level of significance.

Keywords: Maternal knowledge, first aid management, bite and sting care, pretest posttest study, caregiver education, Structured teaching Programme

Edition: Volume 13 Issue 12, December 2024

Pages: 1488 - 1493

DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.21275/SR241221195810

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