Effectiveness of a Structured Teaching Programme to Assess Knowledge of Nursing Interventions for Radiotherapy Side Effect Management

A pre-experimental one-group pretest and posttest study was undertaken on "Effectiveness of a structured teaching program to assess knowledge of nursing interventions for radiotherapy side effect management among nurses in Apollo Hospitals, Health City, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh." The objectives of the study were to assess the knowledge regarding the side effects of radiation therapy among the demographic variables and to find out the association between pre and post-tests after the structured teaching program. To evaluate the effectiveness of a structured teaching program on the effects of intervention-related management of side effects of radiation therapy among nurses at Apollo Cancer Hospital Visakhapatnam. The study was conducted at Apollo Hospital, Health City, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. The population of this study was Nurses in Apollo hospitals who are taking care of radiation therapy the total sample size was sixty and a Purposive sampling technique was adopted for selecting the samples in the present study. The investigator prepared a structured questionnaire for data collection and a structured teaching program to deliver the content related to nursing intervention on radiation therapy complications. The questionnaire and the structured teaching program content were given for content validity to the experts in the field of Oncology medicine. Demographic tools consisted of age, gender, religion, education, occupation, and monthly income of the nurse. The knowledge questionnaire tool contains 30 multiple choice questions to assess the knowledge regarding the nursing interventions on complications of radiation therapy; the correct answer carries 1 mark wrong answer carries 0 mark.The possible maximum score is 30 minimum score is 0. In the pretest, 78.3% had inadequate knowledge, whereas 21.6% of nurses had moderate knowledge.In the post test knowledge discourse showed the improvement.The findings show that an overall pretest score of the "r" value is 1 comparing the post-test score of the r" value is 0.0683 there is a negative correlation between the pretest and post-test level of knowledge among nurses correlation is significant at the 0.01 level.The findings show that an overall pre-test score of r" value is 1 comparing the post-test score of "r" value is 0.0683 there is a negative correlation between the pre-test and post-test level of practice among nurses.Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level.It showed that there was a significant difference between pretest and post-test knowledge scores.Hence it could be concluded that structured teaching education has increased the knowledge of nurses.These findings showed that nurses can be educated on nursing intervention for radiation therapy complications.