A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Planned Teaching Programme on Febrile Convulsions among the Parents of under 5 Children in BD Bhajoriya Rajkiya Hospital Saharanpur

Fever in children is one of the most common manifestations of an illness, which makes the parents seek medical attention early1. Fever maybe caused by multiple causes including infection, vaccines, biologic agents, tissue injury, malignancy, drugs, autoimmune diseases, granulomatous diseases, metabolic disorders gout and genetic disorders such as familiar Mediterranean fever. Febrile convulsions are one of the commonest disorders of the childhood and cause lot of works to the parents and caregivers. Quantitative research approach was used for this study. The nature of the study was pre experimental. The Research design used was one group pre test and post test design. Data was collected using non probability convenient sampling technique. Major findings of the study is the according to their age highest percentage of parents was in age group 21 25 Year 60 , gender shows that highest percentage 60 was women. Pretest finding related to level of knowledge 16 40 parents had inadequate knowledge, 24 60 parents have moderate knowledge. Ms. Rachal Prasad | Ms. Archana Maletha "A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Planned Teaching Programme on Febrile Convulsions among the Parents of under 5 Children in BD Bhajoriya Rajkiya Hospital Saharanpur" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-6 | Issue-4 , June 2022, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd50355.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/other-scientific-research-area/other/50355/a-study-to-assess-the-effectiveness-of-planned-teaching-programme-on-febrile-convulsions-among-the-parents-of-under-5-children-in-bd-bhajoriya-rajkiya-hospital-saharanpur/ms-rachal-prasad