A Study to Develop and Evaluate the Effectiveness of Educational Package on Prevention and Management of Occupational Health Problems

Introduction Occupational health is a branch of community medicine which deals with the effect of occupation or workplace in human health. Every occupation is associated with one or other ill effects of health. Occupational health is to provide a safe occupational environment in order to safe guard the health of the workers. Every life needs to be cherish and every life can make a contribution to society. Sickness weakens the body. To gain strength we have to be cautious during the work, because prevention is better than cure 1 . Objectives 1 Develop an educational package on prevention and management of occupational health problems in the thermal powerplant. 2 Assess and evaluate the knowledge and practice of thermal powerplant workers regarding prevention and management of occupational health problems before and after administration of the educational package. 3 Determine the relationship between knowledge and practice regarding prevention and management of occupational health problems among thermal powerplant workers after administration of educational package. 4 Seek association between knowledge and practice score regarding prevention and management of occupational health problem among thermal powerplant workers after administration of educational package with the selected variables Age, Sex, Educational qualification, Year of working experiences, Area of work, Monthly income . 5 Determine the acceptability and utility of educational package on prevention and management of occupational health. Methods Experimental approach with one group pre test post test design were used. The research setting was T.T.P.S, Jharkhand. The sample comprised of 80. Convenient sampling method was used. The independent variable in the study was educational package and dependent variable were knowledge and practice of thermal powerplant workers. The tool used for data collection is structured knowledge questionnaire, practice rating scale and structured opinionnaire to assess knowledge, practice's, utility and acceptability of educational package was used. Result Educational package was effective in enhancing the knowledge and practice of thermal powerplant workers. Mean post test knowledge score 25.2 was higher than mean pre test knowledge score 15.54 suggesting that there was significant increase level of knowledge of thermal powerplant worker and mean post test practice score 49.31 is higher than mean pre test practice score 34.76 suggesting that there was significant increase level of practice of thermal powerplant workers after educational package. There was a positive correlation 0.47 between knowledge and practice. Mr. Lalan Kumar | Mrs. Sarita Shokandha | Mrs. Madhumita Dey "A Study to Develop and Evaluate the Effectiveness of Educational Package on Prevention and Management of Occupational Health Problems" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-6 | Issue-2 , February 2022, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd49158.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/medicine/nursing/49158/a-study-to-develop-and-evaluate-the-effectiveness-of-educational-package-on-prevention-and-management-of-occupational-health-problems/mr-lalan-kumar