Original Research Article
Year: 2022 | Month: May | Volume: 12 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 339-346
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijhsr.20220537
A Study to Evaluate the Efficacy of Self-Instructional Module on Knowledge Regarding Diet, Exercise and Lifestyle Modification for Preventive and Curative Modalities of Hypertension among Nursing Officer: Pilot Study
Mohan B
Ph.D. Scholar, Dept. of Nursing, Shri Jagadishprasad Jhabarmal Tibrewala University, Jhunjhunu, Chrela, Rajasthan, India.
ABSTRACT
Background: Hypertension is a major world health problem also a silent killer. Educational intervention is vital to increasing knowledge, improving the curative and preventive aspects of Cardio-vascular disease. This study aimed to assess the efficacy of self-instructional module on knowledge regarding diet, exercise and lifestyle modification for preventive and curative modalities of hypertension among nursing officer.
Research Design: A quantitative research approach with Pre-experimental; one group pre-test post-test design was adopted in this study.
Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of self-instructional module on knowledge regarding diet, exercise and lifestyle modification for preventive and curative modalities of hypertension among nursing officers working in selected hospitals of Dharwad.
Sample and sampling technique: Total of 40 nursing officers were selected by Non-Probability Purposive Sampling Technique
Data Collection: The tool used for data collection was semi structured socio-demographic proforma and structured knowledge questionnaire regarding diet, exercise and lifestyle modification for preventive and curative modalities of hypertension.
Data analysis: Collected data was analysed by using descriptive and inferential statistics in terms of frequencies, percentage, mean, standard deviation and ‘t’ test and chi-squared test.
Results: The study findings on pre-test knowledge score was 32(80%) of nursing officer had an average knowledge, none of them had good knowledge, and 08(20%) poor knowledge. In post-test knowledge scores 12(30%) of nursing officers had good knowledge, 28(70%) of them had average knowledge and none of them had poor knowledge. Comparison of pre-test and post-test results revealed that the mean pre-test score was 18.05 and SD was3.91where as the mean post-test scores was 24.95 and SD 3.02 . The calculated two tailed ‘t’ value was (9.65) which was higher than the table value (2.02) which was highly non-significant at the level 0.05. Hence the null hypothesis was rejected and research hypothesis accepted.
Conclusion: The results clearly indicated that the self-instructional module was effective in enhancing the knowledge of nursing officers.
Key words: Hypertension, nursing officer, knowledge, Self-instructional module.