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A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on Knowledge Regarding warning signs of Myocardial Infarction among Patients with Hypertension in a Selected Hospital at Kollam District
Abstract
A quantitative research study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme regarding the warning signs of myocardial infarction among the patients with hypertension in a selected hospital at Kollam. The objectives of the study were to assess the pretest knowledge scores regarding warning signs of Myocardial Infarction among patients with hypertension, to evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding the warning signs of Myocardial Infarction among patients with hypertension, to find out the association between the pretest knowledge scores regarding warning signs of Myocardial Infarction with selected demographic variables of patients with hypertension. Consecutive sampling technique was used to select 30 hypertensive patients for the research study. The tools used for the data collection were demographic proforma, structured knowledge questionnaire and structured teaching programme. The mean post test knowledge score 19.57 with standard deviation 3.33 was significantly higher than the mean pre test knowledge score 9.50 with the standard deviation 4.57.The study showed that there was improvement in the knowledge of hypertensive patients after the implementation of structured teaching programme. And thus the structured teaching programme was statistically significant at 0.01 level. (t= 13.14. P =0.000).There was a significant association between pre test knowledge regarding the warning signs of myocardial infarction and the demographic variables such as duration of hypertension. Hence the study suggested that the structured teaching programme was effective in improving the knowledge of hypertensive patients regarding the warning signs of myocardial infarction.
Key words: Effectiveness; Structured teaching programme; Myocardial infarction; Hypertension.
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