A Study to Aesses the Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on Pneumonia among mothers of infant in a selected pediatric hospital Junagadh

A study to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on pneumonia among mothers of Infant in selected hospital at Junagadh was conducted in hospital. Objectives of the study: 1) To assess exiting knowledge regarding pneumonia among mothers of infants in a selected pediatric hospital at Junagadh. 2) To assess the effectiveness of the structured teaching programme regarding pneumonia among mothers of infants in a selected pediatric hospital at Junagadh. 3) To find out the association between pretest knowledge scores with the selected socio-demographic variables regarding pneumonia among mothers of infants in a selected pediatric hospital at Junagadh. The research design of the study is pre- experimental research design with one group pretest and posttest. Total 60 mothers were taken who have Infant, Non-probability convenient sampling technique was used to select the mothers. The conceptual model of the study was general system model. The study was conducted at Shubham Hospital. Collected. Data was analyzed descriptive statistics such as mean, standard deviation, frequencies and percentages. The association between effectiveness of structured teaching programme will be analyzed by t-test. The obtained “t-test” value for the level of knowledge on regarding pneumonia 28.301 that was highly significance at p<0.05 level the hypothesis was accepted. Demographic variables such age, and area of residence, has obtained Chi-square value below the level of tabulated value at level of 0.05. Other demographical variables such as education, type of family, religion, number of children, source of information and diet pattern has obtained Chi-square value above the level of tabulation at the level of 0.05. thus, hypothesis H2 is accepted. So, it is inferred that there is association between the pre-test level of knowledge with their selected demographic variables.