A Study to Assesse the Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on Knowledge and Attitude regarding Sterilization among Eligible Couple at Selected Rural Area Rajkot

The research design adopted was pre-experimental one group pre-test post-test design. 50 samples were selected by using non probability convenience sampling technique. A Structured Knowledge Questionnaire and 5point Likert’s attitude rating scale were prepared to assess the knowledge and the attitude of the Samples. The tools were developed by reviewing the extensive literature on sterilisation. Reliability of Structured Knowledge Questionnaire and Likert’s attitude scale were ascertained by using test retest method. Also the Structured Knowledge Questionnaire, Likert’s attitude scale and the nurse led intervention by means of flash card, chart, hand out was validated by the experts. The pilot study was conducted on 10 samples and the study was found to be feasible. Descriptive and Inferential statistics was used to analyze the data. ‘t ’ test was used to evaluate the effectiveness of nurse led intervention on sterilisation among eligible couples. The obtain ‘t ’ value for knowledge was 11.18 and for attitude scale was 25.58 which was significant at 0.05. The findings of the study shows that nurse led intervention is effective in improvement of knowledge and change the unfavourable attitude in to favourable attitude.