To Assess the Effectiveness of Planned Health Teaching on the Knowledge regarding Prevention of Chikungunya among adults Population in Selected Rural areas at Jamnagar

Mrs. B. Archana

Assistant Professor, Shri Anand Institute of Nursing, Rajkot, Gujarat.

*Corresponding Author E-mail: archanareddy252@gmail.com

ABSTRACT:

To assess the effectiveness of planned health teaching on the knowledge regarding prevention of chikungunya among Adults Population in selected rural areas at Jamnagar. The objectives of the study were a) To assess the knowledge regarding prevention of chikungunya among Adults population in selected rural areas. b) To assess the effectiveness of planned health teaching on the knowledge regarding prevention of chikungunya among Adults population in selected rural areas. c) To find out the association between Post test level of knowledge with their selected demographic variables. A quantitative research approach was used in the study to assess the effectiveness of planned health teaching on knowledge regarding prevention of chikungunya in selected rural areas at Jamnagar. The comparison between Pre test and Post test knowledge score Obtained by the samples on planned health teaching. The mean Pre test score 7.57 and the mean Post test score is 20.5. The mean difference between Pre test and Post test knowledge score is 12.93. The table also shows that the standard deviation of Pre test knowledge score is 1.92 and Post test is 0.344. The calculated ‘t’ is 34.480 and the tabled ‘t’ is 3.55 with 39 df. At p<0.001 level of significance.

KEYWORDS: Chikungunya, Adults, Planned Health Teaching.

INTRODUCTION:

The present world is facing a series of health problems and is generally believed to be because of population explosion and unawareness of how disease spread and it’s subsequence affects among the general population at large. At present, in community the medical personnel should have given more importance to health promotion, maintenance, prevention and rehabilitation, Lacking of good and proper sanitation causes many illnesses especially among the population under low socio-economic status and these people are more prone to get vector borne diseases.

One of the Common Diseases caused by vector is Chikungunya.¹

Chikungunya symptoms include severe and persistent joint pain, body rash, headache and fever. Initial symptoms are similar to dengue fever. It is usually not life threatening, but the joint pains can last for a long time and full recovery may take months.

Chikungunya disease was first Detected in 1952 in Africa at a place called Makonde plateau. The name “chikungunya” is from the Makonde language and its meaning is “that which bends up” indicating the physical appearance of a patient. Chikungunya disease is a viral disease transmitted in human by the bite of infected mosquitoes. Aedes aegypti mosquito (also called yellow fever mosquito) is the primary transmission agent for Chikungunya virus (CHIKV). In recent cases, another mosquito species named Aedesalbopictus is found to be a carrier. Aedes aegypti bites during day time and hence day time mosquito bite is the main reason for transmission.³

NEED FOR THE STUDY:

Chikungunya is a relatively rare form of viral fever, was first described by Marion Robinson and W.H.R. Lumsden in 1955. The disease is generally believed to be a mild self-limiting illness, but the recent outbreaks shows that there are direct and indirect complications are observed mainly in the elderly, people with chronic diseases, during pregnancies and in neonates.¹⁰

Chikungunya virus occurs widely in sub-saharan Africa, India and in many areas in Asia. After fourty one years since 1963-1964, during 2006 there was a large out break of Chikungunya in India, with 1.39 million officially reported cases spread over 16 states. The out break first noticed in Andhra Pradesh and it sub-sequently spread to Tamil nadu. Thereafter, Kerala and Karnataka where affected and then northwards as far as Delhi. During 2007, until 12 October a further 37, 683 cases had been reported by the government of India.¹¹

OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY:

1. To assess the knowledge regarding prevention of chikungunya among Adults population in selected rural areas.

2. To assess the effectiveness of planned health teaching on the knowledge regarding prevention of chikungunya among Adults population in selected rural areas.

3. To find out the association between Post test level of knowledge with their selected demographic variables.

MATERIAL AND METHOD:

Research design:

Pre experimental one group Pre test and Post test was adopted for this study.

Research study setting:

The study was conducted at Alia bada village, Jamnagar.

Population:

Adults living in rural areas, Jamnagar.

Sample:

A subset of population is called sample. In this study the sample is adults population.

Sample size:

In this study sample size is 40

Sampling technique:

Non Probability purposive sampling technique was adopted to select the sample from the selected area.

RESULTS:

The comparison between pre test and post test knowledge score obtained by the samples on planned health teaching. The mean pre test score 7.57 and the mean post test score is 20.5. The mean difference between pre test and post test knowledge score is 12.93. The table also shows that the standard deviation of pre test knowledge score is 1.92 and post test is 0.344. The calculated ‘t’ is 34.480 and the tabled ‘t’ is 3.55 with 39 df. At p<0.001 level of significance.

The above table reveals that the mean post test knowledge score is significantly higher than the mean pre test knowledge score. The calculated ‘t’ value (t =34.480) is greater than the tabulated ‘t’ (p =3.55). Therefore the research hypothesis H₂is accepted.

CONCLUSION:

The main conclusion from this present study is that most of the adults had inadequate level of knowledge in pre test and they improved to moderate and adequate level of knowledge in post test. This shows the imperative need to understand the purpose of planned health teaching regarding improving the knowledge about prevention of Chikungunya among adults.

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Received on 13.08.2019 Modified on 16.09.2019

Int. J. of Advances in Nur. Management. 2020; 8(1):01-02.

DOI: 10.5958/2454-2652.2020.00001.3