A QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF STRUCTURED TEACHING PROGRAMME ON KNOWLEDGE OF MOTHERS REGARDING PREVENTION OF HOME ACCIDENTS AMONG UNDER 5 YEAR CHILDREN IN SELECTED RURAL AREA OF VILLAGE SUDHAR, LUDHIANA, PUNJAB

Abstract

Introduction: Accidents are the major cause of mortality and morbidity in children. An
accidents can be defined as an unexpected injury, death or property damage. Accidents
represents a major epidemic of non communicable disease throughout the world with
industrialization advance in technology better health care and preventive measure like
immunization. Accidental injuries to infants and young children are often serious, but are largely
preventable with appropriate information and safe practices.
Aim: To assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge of mothers
regarding prevention of home accidents among 5 year children in selected rural area of village
Sudhar, Ludhiana, Punjab.
Material and Method: A quasi –experimental approach with two groups pre- test and post- test
research design and purposive sampling was used. A self- structured questionnaire was used
which has two parts demographic data and questionnaire to assess the knowledge of mothers.
Structured teaching was conducted on experimental group. Data analysis was done by using
descriptive and inferential statistics.
Result: Thepre-test knowledge score was almost same i.e below average in both the groups.In
control group maximum mothers obtained below average knowledge score whereas in
experimental group majority of mothers obtained good post-test knowledge score. The difference
between pre-test and post-test knowledge score of control group was non-significant at p<0.05
level whereas in experimental group it was statistically highly significant at p<0.001 level.
Conclusion: the study concluded that structured teaching programme was significantly effective
in raising the knowledge of mothers regarding prevention of home accidents.