Volume : 7, Issue : 7, July - 2018

To assess the effectiveness of self-instructional module on knowledge regarding management of Enteric Fever among the mothers of under-five children.

Ms. Pallawi Padiyar, Ms. Darshana Kumari

Abstract :

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;&#10;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:150%"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:&#10;normal"><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">Background:</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:&#10;150%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">Typhoid fever is an infectious disease of global distribution. It is a systemic infection caused by <span class="ff5">Salmonella </span>enteric <span class="ff4">serotype </span><span class="ff5">typhi, </span><span class="ff4">remains an important </span>worldwide cause of morbidity and mortality. <u>Objectives:</u>1.To assess the existing knowledge regarding management of enteric fever among mothers of under-five children. 2.To assess the effectiveness of self-instructional module on management of enteric fever among mothers of under-five children. 3.To find the association between the knowledge score with selected demographic variables regarding management of enteric fever among mothers of under-five children. </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;&#10;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&#10;&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">Material and Method:</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:&#10;normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;&#10;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">The study was conducted in selected school of wardha. </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">Pre experimental one group pre test post test research design was used and sample size is 60.<u><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Result</span></u><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">:</span></span></b><b><span style="font-size:&#10;10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&#10;&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">The result shows that </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:&#10;normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;&#10;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">3(5%) them had poor level of knowledge score, 43(71.67%) of them had average level of knowledge score, 14(23.33%) of them had good level of knowledge score, and no one had very good and excellent level of knowledge in pretest. <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:&#10;bold">And in post test result </span>shows that no one had poor, average and good level of knowledge score, and 21(35%) of them had very good level of knowledge score, and 39(65%) of them had excellent level of knowledge score <u>Conclusion:</u></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:&#10;150%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;color:black">The study shows that subject had excellent knowledge regarding management of enteric fever in post test.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>And the association of knowledge score with </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;&#10;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">age, education of mother, occupation of mother, type of family, religion, no. of children, source of information is not significant.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>