EFFECTIVENESS OF PLANNED TEACHING PROGRAMME ON HOME CARE OF PATIENTS WITH DEPRESSION IN TERMS OF KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE OF PRIMARY CARE GIVERS

Mrs. Nutan; Mr. Rathish Nair

Volume : VI, Issue : VI, June - 2016

EFFECTIVENESS OF PLANNED TEACHING PROGRAMME ON HOME CARE OF PATIENTS WITH DEPRESSION IN TERMS OF KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE OF PRIMARY CARE GIVERS

Mrs. Nutan, Mr. Rathish Nair

Abstract :

 Background: Human beings are socially oriented and to achieve satisfaction in life must be able to establish positive relationship. Any kind of sickness may affect the individual, family, as well as other members of this society.1 Objective: Evaluate the effectiveness of Planned Teaching Programme on Home Care of patients with Depression in terms of knowledge and attitude of primary care givers in selected Psychiatric hospital. Methods: A preexperimental one group pretest post test design was used. 30 primary care givers were selected by using convenient sampling technique. Data was collected with interview method by using self structured knowledge questionnaire and 5 point likert scale. Pre test was taken and PTP was administered. After seven days, post test was taken. Collected data was analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results: Findings of the study revealed that the mean post test knowledge score (38.40) was found significantly higher than the mean pretest score (27.07) with ‘t’ value 17.70 at p<0.05. In pre test, majority of the subjects (96.7%) had attitude scores between 36–55, while in post–test most of the subjects attitude scores reached between 56–75. The coefficient of correlation between post test knowledge score and attitude score (0.58) was found statistically significant at p<0.05. Conclusion: The Planned Teaching Programme on "Home care of Patients with Depression" was found to be effective in increasing the knowledge and developing the positive attitude of primary care givers