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Masood , Charu , Mahiya

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Hepatitis C is a major cause of chronic liver disease. It has been recognized as a global health problem because of the progression to cirrhosis and hepatocellular cancer. Chronic hepatitis C is usually asymptomatic but can cause considerable liver damage before its recognition. There are number of viral diseases which are most fatal for human beings but among these viral diseases one of the disease related to liver is hepatitis C. If this viral disease is not treated at right time it can lead to damage the whole liver and act as fatal for human being. Moreover if health professional personals are not taking care of personnel protective equipment’s and other barriers, they can become the victim of hepatitis of C subjected patients are free from this disease. Hepatitis C is a disease caused by the hepatitis C virus and is transmitted by infected body fluids of infected cases to the healthy ones. Hepatitis C virus cause acute hepatitis, a disease that can very anywhere from a mild and self-limiting form to an aggressive and distractive disease leading to post necrotic cirrhosis and death. So it is very important for health care provider to be very vigilant while delivering care to the patients. On those aspects a quantitative, quasi-experimental two group pretest posttest research design study was conducted to assess the knowledge regarding management of Hepatitis C for which 60 subjects were selected by simple random sampling. After data collection structured knowledge questionnaire was used to assess the knowledge among both the groups (control and experimental group). The data was analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics using chi-square and t-test. The findings revealed that majority of the study subjects 29(96.7%) had good knowledge, 1(3.3%) had average knowledge and none of the subjects had neither average nor below average knowledge with posttest mean score 29.67, median 30.00 and standard deviation 2.57 in experimental group. Study concludes that there was gain in knowledge among students after importing structure teaching programme. The study also concluded that there was statistically significant association between educational qualification (p=0.001) of students with their pre-test knowledge scores while as no association was found between age, Residence and source of information of students with their pre-test knowledge scores (p>0.05).

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Impact, Structured Teaching Programme, Hepatitis, Management, Therapy.

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