Designing and Developing Multimedia Package for Mothers on Prevention of Unintentional Injuries Among Children of Udaipur, Rajasthan.

Dr. Preeti Verma; Dr. Garima Babel

Volume : VIII, Issue : II, February - 2019

Designing and Developing Multimedia Package for Mothers on Prevention of Unintentional Injuries Among Children of Udaipur, Rajasthan.

Dr. Preeti Verma, Dr. Garima Babel

Abstract :

The encumber of child unintentional injuries in India and the low level of knowledge of mothers warranty, specific directed efforts to avert the injuries in children particularly at home and on road. Research is the need of the hour to identify the magnitude and distribution of injury risks. Along with this there is a pressing need to develop suitable intervention and promote widespread adoption of these solutions for the credible advocates of child safety especially the mothers. The initiative through present research was intended to first identify knowledge of 180 mothers‘ regarding unintentional injuries, its causative factors and the safety features adopted for children of 4–6 years studying in three non government schools of Udaipur district, Rajasthan. Both these set of findings, experts opinion and literature review served as a basis for designing and developing a concise injury fortification multimedia package (DVD). For further reinforcing messages, an educational booklet i.e. a manual was developed. Script writing, audio recording, collection of images, preparation of a storyboard, synchronization of audio and text and finally evaluation of DVD by panel of experts were the steps followed to design and develop DVD and script writing, collection of images, arranging text with the matching images and evaluation by experts were the steps for manual preparation. Mean score was used to analyze data statistically. Results discovered that the mean score of overall evaluation of the visual aspect of DVD was rated as good with mean score 2.84 and all the nine visual criteria were good ranging between 2.60 to 3.0 out of maximum rating 3. Simultaneously, the mean scores of overall evaluation of the audio aspect was rated as good (2.89) and the ten criteria of audio aspect of DVD was rated good ranging between 2.77 to 3.0. The overall mean scores of the manual ranged between 2.69 to 2.87 (good) out of maximum score 3 and component wise also it was rated average and good by all the ten experts. Consequently, a well designed, developed, evaluated and field tested multimedia package will very well interweave into the existing knowledge of the mothers to be sentient of unintentional injury hazards