Assessment of Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on Knowledge Regarding Dengue Fever

Dengue fever is an acutely infectious mosquito borne viral disease. The prevalence of the mosquito borne disease was increases shown by the recent decades. According to the World Health Organization Dengue virus infection is an escalating health problem throughout the world because of increasing mortality and morbidity and is currently endemic in over 100 countries. "Aim of this study is to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding dengue fever among the students. The conceptual framework was developed based on the Health Belief Model. Structured lesson plan was developed on Dengue fever and content validity was determined by the experts from nursing field. Knowledge questionnaire internal consistency r 0.8 was tested by using split half method. Baseline knowledge level was assessed and structured teaching programme was introduced. Post test assessment of knowledge level was done immediately after teaching session. Data was collected from the 50 selected samples by using structured knowledge questionnaire. Result revealed that in pre test maximum subjects 44 were having average knowledge, 30 subjects were having average knowledge and 24 subjects were having below average knowledge whereas only 2 subjects were having excellent knowledge. After giving teaching to the subjects post test knowledge have shown that majority of subjects i.e..38 .had good level of knowledge,36 had excellent level of knowledge,18 had average whereas only 8 had below average level of knowledge regarding dengue fever. Gaytri Devi | Jasmeet Kaur | Poonam Thakur "Assessment of Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on Knowledge Regarding Dengue Fever" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-6 | Issue-7 , December 2022, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd52373.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/medicine/nursing/52373/assessment-of-effectiveness-of-structured-teaching-programme-on-knowledge-regarding-dengue-fever/gaytri-devi