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- Title
A Study to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on Knowledge Regarding Family Planning Method among Women in Selected Villages of Panipat, Haryana.
- Authors
Rani, Renu; Kumari, Meena
- Abstract
Background: Family planning (FP) means having the number of children you want and only when you want to have them. In spite of availability of a wide range of contraceptive and mass media information and education, the population control remains a distant dream to achieve. Because many women had never tried contraception because they had fear of side effects and religion beliefs. India was the first country in the world to implement national family program in 1952. Family planning is very necessary in communities where the birth rate is high and medical services and financial resources are poor. The success of any family planning method depends not only on its effectiveness in preventing pregnancy but on the rate of continuation of its proper use. Aims: The of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme (STP) on knowledge regarding family planning methods among women in selected villages of Panipat, Haryana. Methodology: The research approaches for the study was quantitative and evaluative approach. The research design selected for the present study was pre-experimental (one group pre test and post test) design. The setting for the study was selected Baroli village Panipat. The sample size for the present study was 60 women selected by no probability convenient sampling technique. Finding: The pre test knowledge of the women on domains of family planning viz., age, religion, educational status, monthly family income, number of living children, source of information was found ( 0.136,1.319,0 .266,0.451,0.761,1.319) and the total mean score was 8.40. The mean post test knowledge score was 21.37 with increase knowledge score in all the domains of family planning indicating remarkable improvement in knowledge score after STP. Conclusion: The study highlights that if proper teaching programme made available to women, their knowledge may be improved.
- Subjects
INDIA; TEACHING methods; EVALUATION of teaching; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL conditions; STATISTICAL sampling; T-test (Statistics); PSYCHOLOGY of women; QUANTITATIVE research; EVALUATION research; PRE-tests &; post-tests; HEALTH literacy; FAMILY planning; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
International Journal of Nursing Education, 2018, Vol 10, Issue 3, p63
- ISSN
0974-9349
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5958/0974-9357.2018.00068.5