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A Study to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Planned Teaching Programme on Knowledge Regarding Biomedical Waste Management Among B.Sc. 3rd year Nursing students of K.L.E. University Institute of Nursing Science, Belgaum, Karnataka.

Abhay D. Pattan

Abstract


A study was conducted on 60 B.Sc. 3rd year nursing students in selected KLEU Institute of nursing sciences, Belgaum to assess the knowledge regarding biomedical waste management and objectives of the study. The objectives of the study were to assess the knowledge regarding biomedical waste management among B.Sc. 3rd year nursing students of KLEU Institute of Nursing Science, Belgaum, Karnataka. To assess the effectiveness of planned teaching programme on knowledge regarding bio-medical waste management among B.Sc. 3rd year Nursing students. To find out the association between pre-test and post-test knowledge score of B.Sc. 3rd year nursing students with selected demographic variables. Materials and Methods: Simple random sampling technique was used to select the sample for the study. Data were collected and analyzed by “structured interview schedule” and “descriptive/inferential statistics,” respectively. The statistics used were based on mean, standard deviation, mean percentage, median, t-test, and Chi-square test. Result: Knowledge regarding biomedical waste management average knowledge found to be a satisfactory. The mean knowledge score was 25.32 with standard deviation 1.43 gain the knowledge.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/ijncc.v1i1.99

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