A Study to assess the effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on knowledge regarding the First aid management of Convulsion in children among primary school teachers of selected schools at Kollam Mathew Anju1, Babu Aswathy1, Samson Priya1, Philip Sara1, Varghese Varsha1, Antony Pinky2 1Third Year BSc Nursing Students, Bishop Benziger College of Nursing, Kollam 2Assistant Professor, Department of Child Health Nursing, Kollam *Corresponding Author Email:
Online Published on 03 May, 2025. Abstract A study to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding the first aid management of convulsions in selected schools at Kollam. The objectives of the study were to: a) To assess the knowledge regarding the first aid management of convulsion in children among primary school teachers of selected schools at Kollam.b) To assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding first aid management of convulsion in children among primary school teachers in selected schools at Kollam.c) To find the association between knowledge of primary school teachers regarding first aid management of convulsion in children with their selected demographic variables. A quantitative approach was used with one group pretestposttest only design. Convenient sampling was used. Sample size was 60. The investigator assessed primary school teachers knowledge using structured questionnaire regarding first aid management of convulsion. After conducting the pretest, structured teaching programme was introduced to the primary school teachers. Posttest was conducted on fifth day using the same research tool. It is found that the calculated t value is greater than table value. There is significant difference between pretest and posttest scores of knowledge of primary school teachers. There is no association between pretest knowledge and selected demographic variables. The finding of the study suggests that structured teaching program is effective in increasing the knowledge of primary school teachers regarding first aid management of convulsion. Top Keywords Children, Assess, Effectiveness, Structured teaching program, Knowledge, First aid management, Convulsion, Primary School Teachers. Top |