Effect of Video Assisted Teaching on Practice of Self Administration of Insulin among Diabetic patients

The present study was undertaken to assess the effect of video assisted teaching on practice of self administration of insulin on diabetic patients admitted in medical department of SH Medical Centre, Kottayam. One-group pre-test post-test research design was used for the study and 50 patients admitted with diabetes were selected by using non-probability purposive sampling technique. The tools used for the data collection were structured interview schedule to assess the socio-personal variables and a checklist to assess the practice of self-administration of insulin. Video-assisted teaching on practice of self-administration of insulin was given to each patient and post-test was done. At the pretest, mean was 6.76. After the pre-test, video-assisted teaching programme was given to the selected patients. The study revealed that there is a significant difference (t=20.10, p <0.001) between pre-test score and post-test score in the practice of self administration of insulin. The study also showed that there is a significant association between practice of self-administration of insulin and selected socio-personal variables such as age, duration of diabetes mellitus.