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A Study to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Self Instructional Module Regarding Vaccine Preventable Diseases Among Mothers of Under-Five Children at Selected Areas in Tarn Taran.

Priya Rani, Ramesh Kumari, Jicy Shahji, Manpreet Garcha, Samuel P

Abstract


Immunization is the one of the most important and cost effective strategies for the prevention of childhood sicknesses and disabilities and it is a basic need for all children. Seven killer diseases causes a major threat to children and this decreases the health status and making them more vulnerable to infectious disease. The major cause for death is vaccine preventable diseases such as neonatal tetanus, measles, tuberculosis, diphtheria, pertussis, polio and Hepatitis B. Infectious diseases are now the world's biggest killer of children and young adults. They account for more than 13 million deaths a year- one in two deaths in developing countries. The present study objective was “to evaluate the effectiveness of self instructional module.” The Pre-experimental one group pre-test and post-test design was adopted. The sample of 100 mothers of under-five children selected by convenient sampling technique. A structured knowledge questionnaire was adopted to collect the data from the samples. Descriptive and inferential statistics was used in data analysis. The result of study shown that there was significant difference in the mean post-test score. The findings reveals that pre test and post test mean knowledge of mothers of under-five children regarding vaccine preventable diseases is 8.5(SD ± 3.95) and 16.33(SD ± 4.79) respectively. Post test mean knowledge score higher than pre test mean score. The‘t’ test value was 12.54 which was significant at 0.05 level. Hence it is concluded that the self instructional module was effective to increase the knowledge of mothers of under five children. This study recommends that similar study can be undertaken on large sample to generalize the findings. Study can be done to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice of nurses regarding vaccine preventable diseases.
Keywords: Self-instructional module, knowledge, vaccine preventable diseases, mothers of under-five children

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/ijin.v1i1-2.13

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