To determine the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on prevention of Chikungunya among adults and to find out the association between the pre-test levels of knowledge score among adults with their selected sociodemographic variables.

Abstract

Aim: To determine the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on prevention of Chikungunya among adults. To find out the association between the pre-test level of knowledge score among adults with their selected sociodemographic variables.

Methods: In order to achieve the objective of the study, a quasi experimental one group pretest post test without control group design with evaluative approach was adopted and for that simple random sampling technique (lottery method) was used to select the subject for the study. The data were collected by using structured questionnaire from 60 adults (40-50 years) before and after the administration of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding prevention of chikungunya among the adults (40-50 years) in selected rural areas at Maharashtra.

Results: Highly significant difference found between the pre-test and post-test Knowledge Scores at the level of (P<0.05). Structured teaching programme is proved to be effective in improving the knowledge of adults (40-50 years) at selected rural areas regarding prevention of chikungunya. The analysis of mean, S.D. and mean percentage of the knowledge score in pre-test and post-test revealed that the mean percentage in pre-test was 10.28% where as in post-test mean percentage was 17.38%. This shows the effectiveness in structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding prevention of chikungunya.

Conclusion: The comparison of pre-test and post-test knowledge score showed that there was a significant gain in knowledge scores of adults (40-50 years) after structured teaching program at p<0.05 level ( t-24.02, at p<0.05). This shows that structured teaching program was effective.