A Pre experimental Study to Assess the Knowledge and Knowledge on Anemia & its practice among mothers of Primary School Children
Journal Title: International Journal of Pediatric Nursing - Year 2018, Vol 4, Issue 1
Abstract
Great advances have been made during the past 50 years in knowledge of nutrition and in the practical application of that knowledge. According to modern concepts, school health service is a powerful way of raising health in future generations. Still they are young ,for betterment of exposure their parents has to be assessed. For this fact a pre-experimental study to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on Anemia in terms of knowledge and knowledge on practice among mothers of primary school children in Omandhu Ramachandran Middle school, Trichy. Quantitative approach and Preexperimental design chosen to conduct study. A self structured tool was developed to collect data. Sample size N=40 which includes mothers of primary school children (Mothers of children who had Hemoglobin level between 7 - 11 gm/dl). Results revealed that pretest mean knowledge score was 31 (Average). While post test knowledge score was 78 (Adequate) and pretest mean knowledge on practice score 20.75, post test mean knowledge on practice score 76.88. Correlation Co-Efficicient applied to find correlation between pretest knowledge and pre test knowledge on practice (0.394*), posttest knowledge and posttest knowledge on practice (0.435*), the scores was significant at 0.01 level. Chi-Square applied there was significant association between post test knowledge and selected demographic variable such as education significant at p<0.001 level.
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V. P. Packia Lakshmi
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- DOI 10.21088/ijpen.2454.9126.4118.3
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