A Study to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on Knowledge Regarding Prevention of Coronary Artery Disease among Adults in Kale Village Karad

In India, coronary artery disease is one of the leading causes of death. Evidence based guidelines are recommending multiple drug therapy (statins, aspirin, ACE-I and beta-blockers) for the prevention of CAD. Clinical data for the secondary prevention of CAD are endorsing significant mortality benefits with these evidence based therapy. In real life clinical practice, there is inadequacy of knowledge regarding coronary artery disease so researcher planned to provide structured teaching programme. Aim & ObjectivesTo evaluate the effectiveness of structure teaching programme on knowledge regarding prevention of coronary artery disease among adults in kale village karad. Material & Methods Evaluative study was conducted on 30 adult of Kale rural population by using interview schedule method. The data was collected tabulated and analyzed in terms of objectives of the study, using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results It was found that there was deficit in knowledge about coronary Artery Disease among adults during pre test percentage (46.17 %), and post test knowledge percentage (70 %), and actual gain score was 23.83 The mean post test knowledge score was found to be significantly higher than the pre test score that the gain in knowledge score is statistically significant P value less than 0.0001 levels. There for the structured teaching programme on Prevention of CAD is effective in improving the knowledge of adults.