A Study To Assess The Effectiveness of Video Assisted Teaching Programme on Knowledge Regarding Prevention of Worm Infestation Among Mothers of Toddlers (1 To 3 Years) At Selected Rural Area, Bangalore

Abstract Background: Worm infestation remains one of the main health problems during child development especially in developing countries. Ninety percent of humans will have a problem with parasites in their lifetime. In rural areas of India, condition is even worse because of lack of portable water and proper sanitary facilities. Educating mothers will to reduce the worm infestation among their children, in a way the future citizens. Objectives: · To assess the knowledge regarding prevention of worm infestation among mothers of toddlers through pre-test knowledge scores. · To assess the effectiveness of video assisted teaching program regarding prevention of worm infestation among mothers of toddlers by comparing the pre- test and post-test knowledge scores. · To find the association between post-test knowledge scores of mothers of toddlers and their selected socio-demographic variables. Materials and methods: The research design used for this study is pre-experimental one group pretest – posttest design. An evaluative approach with sample size about 60 mothers of toddlers was selected as sample using cluster sampling technique. The tools used for collecting the data were socio-demographic variables and self-administered knowledge questionnaire. The study was conducted at Channasandra village, Uttarahalli, Bangalore. Results: The result of the study reveals that the pre-test mean knowledge score was 50% is less than the post-test mean knowledge score 74% after the video assisted teaching program. The paired ‘t’test value was 18.22* which is statistically significant at 0.05level in all aspects under study. There is no significant association between the post-test knowledge score of mother’s regarding worm infestation and its prevention with selected socio-demographic variables. Conclusions: Findings of the present study showed that there was a significant difference between the pre-test and post-test knowledge of mothers. From this it is concluded that the video assisted teaching program is effective in improving the level of knowledge of mothers and there was no significant association between level of knowledge of mothers and selected socio-demographic variables.