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Effectiveness of SIM on Knowledge Regarding Telemedicine among the Staff Nurses

I. Khan, M. K. Dhanalakshami, J. H. Naveena

Abstract


Background: In India, majority of the population (nearly 75%) resides in rural areas where there are restricted opportunities for providing healthcare due to limitations in terms of infrastructure, facility, manpower and funds. Telemedicine offers one of the best options for delivering healthcare among rural and geographical distant populations across the country. The study was undertaken to assess the knowledge regarding Telemedicine among Staff Nurses because Staff Nurses serve as a backbone of health profession and the social network of nurses is far more greater than any other health team. Materials and methods: The research approach adopted for this study is an evaluative approach. The research design adopted for this study is Pre-experimental one group pretest posttest design to assess the effectiveness of Self Instructional Module on knowledge regarding Telemedicine among the staff nurses working, at Selected Hospitals, in Bangalore. Non-probability sampling in which convenient sampling technique was used to select the subjects from various hospitals, in Bangalore, the instrument for the data collection was a structured questionnaire. Results: The findings of the study revealed that the result of this study shows that in the pretest the overall mean of knowledge was 13.37 with 3.11 SD and mean percentage was 44.5% where as in the posttest overall mean of knowledge was 25.08 with 2.37 SD and mean percentage was 83.6% with paired “t”=24.95 at P=0.001 significance and DF=59. Further computed paired [‘t’] test value (24.95) in knowledge revealed that there was significant gain in the knowledge of Staff Nurses after the administration of Self Instructional Module. The comparison of overall pretest and posttest percentage of Staff Nurses reveals that the total effectiveness of self-instructional module on knowledge regarding Telemedicine was 39.1%. The above findings clearly indicated that SIM was an effective method of improving the knowledge of Staff Nurses regarding Telemedicine. Conclusion: The study concluded that the SIM on Telemedicine was an effective method for providing poor to excellent Knowledge and helps Staff Nurses to enhance their knowledge regarding Telemedicine which would in turn help the nurses serve better as well as provides best career opportunities.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/ijncc.v1i1.103

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