Effectiveness of Structured - Teaching Programme on Care of Childrenwith Juvenile Diabetes among the Nursing Students

Volume 7 Issue 2 May - July 2017

Research Paper

Effectiveness of Structured - Teaching Programme on Care of Childrenwith Juvenile Diabetes among the Nursing Students

Ravi Kulal*, Rashmi Negi**, Swetha Handa***

* Associate Professor, Maharaja Agrasen College of Nursing, Haryana, India.

**-*** Assistant Professor, Shree Guru Gobind Singh Tricentenary University, Haryana, India.

Kulal, R., Negi,R.,and Handa, S. (2017). Effectiveness of Structured - Teaching Programme on Care of Children with Juvenile Diabetes among the Nursing Students. i-manager’s Journal on Nursing, 7(2), 14-20. https://doi.org/10.26634/jnur.7.2.13691

Abstract

Juvenile diabetes is now becoming far more common among the children and women of low socioeconomic background. The most troublesome aspect of juvenile diabetes is its increasing prevalence in poor children in India. It requires the combined effort of both the physician and the nurse. The nurse should understand the effect of Diabetes on the child and family, appreciate developmental issues for each stage of Diabetes and their relationship to Diabetes and recognize their influence on the care of children with Juvenile diabetes. One group pretest – post test research design was adopted for the study. In view of the nature of the research problem and objectives, a structured questionnaire schedule and planned teaching programme was developed in the home management of juvenile diabetes mellitus. The study sample comprises of 85 students of third year B.Sc. Nursing selected by non probability convenient sampling technique. The Structured interview schedule was used to collect needed data followed by that Planned teaching Programme on domiciliary management of juvenile diabetes mellitus. After the pretest, a planned- LCD teaching programme was given for 45 minutes. Post test was administered after six days. The data collected were tabulated and analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics.

Results show that 82 (96.47%) students had inadequate knowledge in pre-test, 3 (3.53%) students had moderate knowledge and none of them had adequate knowledge in pre-test. In post-test, 30 (35.3%) students had moderate knowledge, 55 (64.7%) students had adequate knowledge and none of them had inadequate knowledge on Juvenile diabetes. The study concludes that the Planned teaching Programme was effective in improving the knowledge of students regarding domiciliary management of Juvenile diabetes.