EFFECTIVENESS OF STRUCTURED TEACHING PROGRAMME ON KNOWLEDGE REGARDING SELECTED SKIN INFECTIONS AMONG PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS OF SELECTED GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS AT VELLORE

Enoch Inbadoss S; Vahithamala K

Volume : VII, Issue : VII, July - 2017

EFFECTIVENESS OF STRUCTURED TEACHING PROGRAMME ON KNOWLEDGE REGARDING SELECTED SKIN INFECTIONS AMONG PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS OF SELECTED GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS AT VELLORE

Enoch Inbadoss S, Vahithamala K

Abstract :

The aim of the study is to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding selected skin infections among Primary school teachers of selected Government schools at Vellore. A Pre experimental, one group pretest and posttest design was selected as research design. The study was conducted in selected Government schools. Purposive sampling technique was adopted to select 40 samples in selected Government schools. The data was collected using structured questionnaire. It comprises of demographic profile and 35 multiple choice questionnaires on selected skin infections. The tool indicates reliable. Data collection was done for the period of one month. The pretest was conducted by administered the structured questionnaire following which structured teaching programme was given for 45 minutes using audio visual aids (Projector). After the 15 days, the posttest was done by using same questionnaire. The significant findings of the study was in pretest, out of 40 samples of the primary school teachers 14(35 %) had inadequate knowledge, and 26 (65%) had moderate adequate knowledge and none of the samples were had adequate knowledge. In posttest majority of the teachers 31 (77.5 %) acquired adequate knowledge, 9 (22.5 %) gained moderate adequate knowledge and none of them had inadequate knowledge on selected skin infection. The findings showed that overall mean score in pretest was 13.47 and in posttest was 27.17 and overall mean knowledge score the‘t’ value was 26.414.The ‘p’value was 0.000, which shows that highly significant. There was no association between the selected demographic variables and selected skin infections. The finding of the study concluded that structured teaching programme was very effective in improving the knowledge of primary school teachers on selected skin infection.