Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on Knowledge Regarding Complimentary Therapies Among Diabetes Patients
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https://doi.org/10.37628/ijcn.v4i2.780Abstract
Diabetes mellitus is one of the highest prevalent and fastest growing diseases in the world. Complementary therapy is economical and simple therapeutic modality may be considered as a beneficial adjuvant for diabetes mellitus. This study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding complementary therapies among diabetic patients. A pre-experimental one-group pre-test and post-test research design is adopted with 30 diabetic patients. Self-administered questionnaire tool was used to determine the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on complementary therapies. The results reveal the comparison of pre-test and post-test levels of knowledge, the pre-test mean score was 11 with standard deviation of 60, and the post-test mean score was 25 with the standard deviation of 134, and the projected t-value was 14.01 which shows highly significance at the level of p < 0.001.References
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