A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Educational Intervention on knowledge and Attitude of Mothers Regarding Care of Children with Convulsion Disorder at Melmaruvathur

Background: Convulsion disease among children from birth to adolescence is seen to be problematic almost throughout the world. Seizures are common in the pediatric age group and occur in 10% of children. Objectives: To assess the educational intervention on knowledge and attitude of mothers regarding care of children with convulsion disorder. Design: quasi experimental design was used. Setting: Melmaruvathur village at Kancheepuram district.

Participants: 150mothers selected by fulfilling inclusion criteria.

Materials and methods: Pretest was conducted to all the participants by using structured questionnaire for assessing knowledge and likert scale for assessment of attitude. Participants were given 30-45 minutes to complete the questionnaire. Educational intervention was given to all the participants. After 7 days post test was conducted by using the same questionnaire.

Results and discussion: The findings revealed that pretest 126(84%)mothers had inadequate knowledge and 24(16%)had moderately adequate knowledge . In post test 112 (74.67%) mothers had adequate knowledge and 32(21.33%) had moderately adequate knowledge. In attitude pretest 120(80%) had poor attitude and 30 (20%) had fair attitude. In post test 126(84%) had good attitude and 20 (13.33%) had fair attitude about mother regarding care of children with convulsion disorder.

Conclusion: Effectiveness of educational intervention paired 't' test showed that educational intervention was statistically significant at p<0.05 level of mothers regarding care of children with convulsion disorder. This study proved that the knowledge and attitude of mothers had markedly increased after the educational intervention.