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To Assess the Knowledge of High School Teachers Regarding Swine Flu, Its Transmission and Its Prevention Among High School Students at Ghataprabha With a View to Prepare Information Booklet

Sangeeta Mahesh Satwekar

Abstract


A child is a unique individual whose childhood is vital period as children are vulnerable to disease, death & disabilities. Environment plays very great role as determinant of infant & childhood mortality & morbidity. Now a days new sicknesses are arising which are life threatening & out of these recently observed dreadful viral infection is Swine flu. The awareness about swine flu will keep each and every student to help them to protect from this life threatening disease. Teacher is a key person in a school and he/she can help students to prevent themselves and others as school is a natural channel through which the health of the community can be improved. Total of 50 high school teachers were selected by purposive sampling from Ghataprabha, Karnataka in 2011. Knowledge questioner was used for data collection. Results demonstrated that majority of the respondents i.e. 56%, had average knowledge, 32% had poor knowledge and only 04% & 08% had very good & good knowledge respectively. Researcher found no association between the knowledge scores of high school teachers with selected demographic variables. Information booklet was provided to all the samples which contained adequate information regarding swine flu, its transmission & prevention that shall be beneficial to not only the present batches but also forth coming batches of students.


Keywords: high school children, prevention, swine flu, transmission

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/ijpn.v2i1.115

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