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Quasi-experimental study to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching program on knowledge regarding management of Hepatitis B among Multipurpose health workers under training in Ancillary Medical Training school Baramulla Kashmir

Naseer Ahmad , Masood Ahmad

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Author

Naseer Ahmad

ISSN

2319-5622

DOI

10.46978/sjnr.21.2.1.02

Published on

Jan 02, 2021

Abstract

Hepatitis B is nowadays a concern to pay attention as day by day its length of spread is increased in the world and it leads to serious dysfunction of the liver organ. Hepatitis B is a serious infection caused by the hepatitis B Virus that is easily preventable by a vaccine. It has been recognized as a global health problem, issue and challenge because of its progression. In rare cases of chronic liver infection it is said that it can later develop cirrhosis or liver cancer. Hepatitis B has emerged as a global public health concern. If this disease is not cured at right time it can worse liver and may be fatal for human being. Moreover during the delivery of care of patients suffering with hepatitis B should take proper precautions by using personals protective equipment’s. This disease can vary anywhere from a mild and self-limiting form to an aggressive and distractive disease leading death. Keeping these things in view a quantitative, quasi-experimental two group pretest posttest research design study was conducted to assess the knowledge regarding management of Hepatitis B 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).

Keywords

Effectiveness, knowledge, skill, structured teaching programme, hepatitis

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