WORLD JOURNAL OF ADVANCE
HEALTHCARE RESEARCH

Dr. Priyadarshini*, and Dhanalakshmi N.

ABSTRACT

Background of the study: The frequency of intestinal infection because of worm infestation is more in younger children. The objective of the study is to determine the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding worm infestation and their management among mothers of school going children. In this study, one group is pre-test and post-test, pre-experimental design was used and purposive sampling technique was adopted to select 60 mothers of school going children in selected rural area Mysuru. Data were collected using self-administered knowledge questionnaire. Structured teaching was given to mothers of school going children. In pre-test. Majority 30% of them have average knowledge, 75% of them have poor knowledge and none of them have good knowledge were as in the post-test 53% of them have average knowledge and of them 26% have good knowledge and 25% of them have poor knowledge. The significance of difference between the mean pre-test and post-test scores which was statistically tested using paired ‘t’ test. The mean difference between the mean pre-test and mean post-test knowledge scores was 5.2 with the paired ‘t’ test (59) =1.378 which was found to be significant at 0.05 level of significance. The results reveals that the knowledge score of mothers of school going children had no association with selected personnel variable accept previous knowledge regarding worm infestation.

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