Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on Knowledge regarding Anticoagulation Therapy in Cardiovascular Disease among nursing students

A study to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding anticoagulation therapy in cardiovascular disease among nursing students in selected college at Mangalore. Objectives of the study was1To determine the pre-test level of knowledge of nursing students regarding Anticoagulation therapy.2 To evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding anticoagulation therapy among nursing students.3To find the association between pre-test knowledge levels of the nursing students and selected baseline variables. Method: -In the present study pre-experimental with one group pre-test and post-test design was adopted. The sample size of the study was 60 were selected by random sampling technique. The pre-test and post-test was conducted using the structured knowledge questionnaire. The data was analysed and interpreted based on descriptive and inferential statistics. Paired ‘t’ test was used to find the effectiveness of structured teaching program and Chi-square test was used to find the association of pre-test knowledge score with selected demographic variables. Result-For the present study the significant findings were, 63.3% of them were in the age 20 years, 93.3% were female, 63.3% of them were Hindu, about 78.3% belonged to urban area, 76.7% of participants had previous knowledge about anticoagulation therapy, and 52.2% of them had source of knowledge from clinical experience. The total mean percentage of pre-test knowledge score was 47.43%, with mean±SD of 14.23±1.94 and the total post-test knowledge score was 77.23%, with mean±SD of 23.317±1.742 showing an effectiveness of 30.28%, with mean±SD of 9.08±2.81, significance of difference between pre-test and post- test score was statistically tested by using paired ‘t’ test and is found very highly significant (t=25.021, p= 0.001), there was no association between pre-test knowledge score and demographic variables.