Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on Knowledge Regarding Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
Journal Title: Scholars Journal of Applied Medical Sciences - Year 2015, Vol 3, Issue 1
Abstract
Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is one of the most serious infections of women today occurs in large number of women per year in developing countries. The study was conducted to find out the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding pelvic inflammatory disease among women of reproductive age. The community based pre-experimental one group pretest posttest study design which was conducted among 60 women of reproductive age in urban community of Mangalore city, India. The pre-test level of knowledge showed that 61.7% subjects had poor, 38.3% subjects had average and none of them had good level of knowledge. Whereas in the post-test 86.7% subjects had good and 13.3% subjects had average and none of them had poor level of knowledge. The total mean percentage of pre-test was 32.6 with mean and SD 9.78 ± 3.97 and the total mean percentage of post-test 76.5 with mean and SD 22.95 ± 2.83. There was significant association between pre-test level of knowledge and type of the family and educational status of the women (p<0.05).The study concluded that structured teaching programme was effective in improving the knowledge of reproductive age group women regarding pelvic inflammatory disease.
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Nirmala Neupane
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