Mital Jagatiya, Suneesh P.M, Jeenath Justin Doss K.

A Study to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on Knowledge Regarding Prevention of Deep Vein Thrombosis among Post-Operative Orthopedic Patients in Selected Hospital at Rajkot

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A study to evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding prevention of deep vein thrombosis among post-operative orthopedic patients in selected hospital, at Rajkot. The objectives of the study was (a) To assess the level of knowledge regarding prevention of deep vein thrombosis among post-operative orthopedic patients. (b) To evaluate the effectiveness of STP on prevention of deep vein thrombosis In terms of knowledge among post-operative orthopedic patients. (c) To find out the association between selected demographic variables and Pre-test level of knowledge on prevention of deep vein thrombosis among post-operative orthopedic patients. The research design adopted was One Group Pre-test and Post-test design. The study had been conducted in selected hospital at Rajkot. Non probability sampling technique had been adopted to select the desired samples. The sample size was 40. As a part of intervention, a STP on knowledge regarding prevention of DVT was provided to each post-operative orthopedic patients for 30 minutes and the data was collected by structured interview with set of questionnaires that is administered to assess the level of knowledge regarding prevention of DVT among post-operative orthopedic patients. The data were analyzed by using both descriptive and inferential statistical method paired “t” test was used to evaluating the effectiveness of STP on knowledge regarding prevention of DVT. The obtained value 10.05, which shows highly significant at the level of p<0.05. There is significant association between demographic variables such as age, religion with pretest level of knowledge on prevention of DVT. The study concluded that the STP was effectiveness in improving of knowledge regarding prevention of DVT.

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