Effectiveness of planned teaching programme on prevention of post operative pulmonary complications among pre-operative cardio thoracic patients at tertiary care center of Andhrapradesh.
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Nursing and health Science - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 5
Abstract
AIM: A study to evaluate the effectiveness of planned teaching programme on prevention of post-operative pulmonary complications among pre-operative cardiothoracic patients.Materials and methods: A preexperimental research with one group pre- test post -test design was used for this study. The study was conducted in the cardio-thoracic post- operative ward in SVIMS hospital, Tirupati, A.P. The population consists of pre &post operative cardio-thoracic surgery patients. The sample was 70 post-operative cardiothoracic patients who fulfilled the inclusion criteria were selected by using purposive sampling technique. The tool used for data collection was structured questionnaire. Results: Results shows that 42(60.0%) werehaving inadequate knowledge, 24(34.39%)were havingmoderate knowledge, 4(5.70%)adequate knowledge inpre- testand47(67.10%)have adequate knowledge,19(27.10%)have moderate knowledgeand4(5.70%)haveinadequate knowledgeinthepost test.Thepretestmeanscores21.40±7.04hadincreasedmean scoreto36.21±6.07intheposttestwhichindicatesthatplannedteaching was effectivein increasing knowledgelevels ofpost-operativecardiothoracicpatients. Conclusion: The results from this study reveals that planned teaching programme is effective in increasing the knowledge regarding prevention of post-operative pulmonary complications among post-operative cardiothoracic patients. The findings of the study revealed a significant increase in the post test knowledge scores after structure teaching programme.
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Shahidabee . K, Nagarathnam . M
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