Effectiveness of Planned Teaching Programme on Knowledge of Mothers of School-Aged Children on Prevention of Typhoid Fever in Selected Hospitals of Hassan, Karnataka.

Abstract

Introduction: Typhoid fever is also known as enteric fever, is a systemic infection by salmonella typhi or by the related but less virulent salmonella paratyphi. Since ancient times this bacteria have thrived during war time and during the break down of basic sanitation. Salmonella typhi persists mostly in developing nations where sanitation is generally poor.

Methodology: The research approach for the study was a true experimental design in nature to assess the effectiveness of the planned teaching programme. The investigator had utilised probability sampling in which simple random technique had been used for the selection of the subjects. A sample of 100 mothers of school-age children were selected for the study by a lottery method and through randomization among the 100 mothers, 50 mothers were selected for the experimental while 50 mothers were selected for the control group. The instrument used for the study was structured knowledge questionnaire.

Results: The results showed that Pre-Test findings  were 34.6% and 33.4% in experimental and control group respectively. While post-test score were 80.9% and 35.3% in experimental and control group respectively. Hence the post-test Mean knowledge score of the experimental group was significantly higher than the post-test knowledge score of control group. The paired student‘t’ test value was 53.52 which is highly significant and p=0.001 level. Conclusion: The knowledge level of mothers on prevention of typhoid fever is higher in experimental than control group.

Keywords: Knowledge, typhoid fever, Planned teaching programm