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Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Program on Knowledge Regarding DOTS among Nursing Students

Rajkumari Gunisana Devi

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Introduction: In India, tuberculosis (TB) remains a major public health problem. DOTS was the Directly Observed Treatment Short course strategy. All countries with a TB problem were to supply standardized short-course drug treatment to, at least, all lower respiratory tract smear-positive TB patients in DOTS strategy; the health worker or any community volunteer watches the patient swallow all his/her drugs. This improves the cure rate of TB. The healthcare provider or volunteer who observes patient to swallow anti-TB drugs is called a DOT provider. The worker uses a sample of blister pack to explain about the drugs that the patient will have to take. Methods: A pre-experimental one-group pretest and posttest research design was used in this study. Purposive sampling technique was used to select the sample and the sample size was 30 nursing students. Data were collected by using structured knowledge questionnaire. Analysis was done by using descriptive and inferential statistics. Result: The result showed that, out of 30 samples, the overall pretest mean score of nursing students was 17.33 (SD = 3.6) and the posttest mean score increased to 29.9 (SD = 2.49). The comparison mean difference in the present study was 12.60 (SE of mean D = 0.75) with paired t-value of 16.77. The table value of t at 0.05 level of significance and 29 degrees of freedom is 2.045. As the calculated value was more than the table value, it was clearly found that the structured teaching program was effective in improving the knowledge of nursing students regarding DOTS. No significant association between the demographic variables such as age, religion, education, father education, mother education, sources of information regarding DOTS and exposure to IEC campaign on DOTS with post-test knowledge scores of nursing students.


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