A Study to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Planned Teaching Programme on Knowledge Regarding Assisted Reproductive Technology among the Infertile Couples in Selected Hospital at Gonda, UP

This study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of planned teaching programme on knowledge regarding Assisted Reproductive Technology among the infertile couples in selected hospital at Gonda. The study was conducted in S.C.P.M. Hospital Gonda. 50 infertile participants were selected. A structured questionnaire was developed to assess the pretest and posttest knowledge of infertile couples. Planned teaching program was conducted after administering the pretest. Posttest was administered after one week. There two sections of questionnaire was used one is socio demographic variables and another one is knowledge questionnaire on assisted reproductive technology. Pilot study was conducted with 5 samples and the main study was conducted with permission from the hospital authority and from each sample. In pretest the only 11 (22 %) samples had adequate knowledge, but after administration of STP the posttest was showing that 33 (66 %) samples were had adequate knowledge. It shows that the STP was effective in case of knowledge on assisted reproductive technology. There is significant association between pretest and posttest knowledge scores as the calculated ‘t’ test was higher than the tabulated value at 0.05 level of significance. Therefore, the H1 is accepted. There is a significant association between sociodemographic variables such as knowledge assisted reproductive technology and the knowledge values. Therefore, the H2 is accepted at 0.05 level of significance.