Effect of Structured Teaching Program on Knowledge regarding Home Care Management among Elderly patients undergoing Cataract Surgery

A quantitative research approach was done to evaluate effect of health promotion intervention on knowledge regarding prevention of coronary artery disease among college students in selected colleges at Alappuzha district. The objectives were to assess the knowledge regarding prevention of coronary artery disease and to determine the effect of health promotion intervention on knowledge regarding prevention of coronary artery disease among college students and to find out the association between the pretest score on knowledge regarding prevention of coronary artery disease among college students with their selected demographic variables. The conceptual framework was based on general system theory by Ludwing Von Bertalanffy. The quantitative research approach was selected with quasi experimental one group pretest control group design, The 40 samples were selected using non - probability convenient sampling technique. The necessary data was collected using structured questionnaire. The findings were that mean between post-test knowledge score of experimental group (p<0.005) indicates that there is a significant increase in the knowledge score of experimental group on knowledge regarding prevention of coronary artery disease among college students after the structured teaching programme. The association between knowledge score with various demographic variables shows 0.05 level of significance. Therefore, there will be significant association between pretest level of knowledge score of college students regarding prevention of coronary artery disease with their selected demographic variables such as gender, personal habits and diet.