International Journal of Innovative Research and Development

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Background of the Study: Primary Dysmenorrhea is defined as recurrent, crampy pain during menstruation in the absence of pelvic pathology. Ginger is a fundamental herbal treatment for it and ginger’s amazing properties act as anti-inflammatory action. Ginger has been used to treat common ailments such as headaches, nausea, vomiting, colic, and even painful menstruation.Active stretching exercise will effective in the reduction of dysmenorrheal symptoms. Active exercise is also positively affect to this problem.Objective: The main objective of present study was to assess the effectiveness of dietary ginger v/s active exercise on primary dysmenorrhea among adolescent girls.Material and Methods: An Evaluatory research approach with quasi experimental- Non-Equivalent control group design was used. The sampling technique was Non-Probability Convenience sampling. The sample were adolescent girls who were age of 17-19 years in selected nursing colleges and total sample size were 40. (20 from each group) Data collection was done from 1/08/2015 to 30/08/2015. The tool consists of section A: Demographic Tool, B: Universal pain assessment tool, C: Menstrual Distress Questionnaire, D: Preparation & administration of dietary ginger, E: Preparation & administration of active exercise. The reliability of tool was established by Cron Bach’s r test method. Data was analysed by using descriptive & inferential statistics. In that frequency, mean, SD, t value & Chi square test were included. The data was also presented in graphically. Results: According to universal pain assessment scores, in dietary ginger group, mean of post-test was 2.25 (22.5%) and in active exercise group mean of post-test was 3.60 (36%). So that mean difference in both group were 5.90 (59%) & 4.15 (41.5%). According to menstrual distress scores, in dietary ginger group, mean of post-test was 15.05 (12.5%) and in active exercise group mean of post-test was 26.05 (21.7%). So that mean difference in both group were 80.85 (67.4%) & 69.70 (58.1%). It proves that dietary ginger is more effective than active exercise among adolescent girls in selected Nursing Colleges on Primary Dysmenorrhea. Interpretation and Conclusion: It concluded that dietary ginger and active exercise both are effective but it proves that dietary ginger is more effective than active exercise among adolescent girls in nursing colleges on primary dysmenorrhea.

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• ®      Objective: The study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of planned teaching program on knowledge regarding prevention and management of PCOS among the female health workers of selected PHC of Waghodia taluka.
• ®      Setting: The study is conducted at selected PHC of Waghodia taluka, Vadodara, Gujarat.
• ®      Design: A pre-experimental one group pretest posttest design was used.
• ®      Sampling technique: The samples of this study are selected by using non probability convenient sampling technique.
• ®      Sample: The sample for the present study comprises of 60 female health workers of selected PHC of Waghodia taluka.
• ®      Tools for data collection: The structured questionnaire was used as an instrument to measure the level of knowledge regarding prevention and management of PCOS among female health workers.
• ®      Findings & Results: The findings of pre-test data showed that 11.66% of female health workers had adequate knowledge, 45% were having moderately adequate knowledge while 43.33% had inadequate knowledge. Findings of post-test data show that 78.33% of the respondents possess adequate knowledge as compared to 21.66% of the respondent noticed with moderately adequate knowledge. Finally, its shows that 78.33% has gained knowledge and raised to adequate. The mean post-test knowledge score (23.05) also was higher than the mean pre-test score (11.90).The comparison of pre-test and post-test knowledge scores of female health workers shows the obtained ‘t’ value 19.73 is greater than the table value at 0.05 (2.00) level of significance. Therefore “t” value is found to be significant indicating that there is a significant difference between pre-test and post-test knowledge of female health workers. Chi-square test was calculated to find out the association between the demographic variables and the level of knowledge regarding prevention and management of PCOS among female health workers of selected PHC of Waghodia taluka. The findings indicates that all the variables such as Age (χ²= 1.58), Monthly Income (χ²= 2.76), Religion (χ²= 1.24), Number of Children (χ²= 6.95) were found to be significant at 0.05 level of significance. Thus it can be interpreted that there is a significant association between pre-test level of knowledge among female health workers with their selected socio-demographic variables such as Age, Monthly Income, Religion, and Number of children.
• ®      Conclusion: So we can conclude that the planned teaching program on prevention and management of PCOS has shown its impact as there is a remarkable increase in the knowledge of female health workers regarding prevention and management of PCOS after providing the planned teaching program.

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Introduction: Pregnancy and childbirth are the most important events of a women’s life. WHO reported that every minute a mother dies from complication in pregnancy and childbirth that means 1400 mothers die every day more than half a million mothers die every year. Many of the deaths could be prevented using existing knowledge and affordable tools. Objectives: To assess the existing knowledge of staff nurses working in maternity unit regarding infection control measures in labour room. To evaluate the effectiveness of the planned teaching programme on knowledge regarding infection control measures among staff nurses working in the maternity unit. To determine the association between pre-test knowledge score of staff nurse regarding infection control measure in labourroom. Materials and methods: An evaluative research approach with pre-experimental design was used. The sampling technique used was non - probability convenient sampling.  Data was collected from selected Hospitals at Panchmahal District. Data collection was done from 10-09-2014 to 25-09-2014. The tool consist of section: 1 Demographic profile, section:2 – knowledge regarding Infection Control measures in labour room 30 items. The reliability of the tool was established by using the test retest method. Hence the tool was found to be reliable. Data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Descriptive statistics used were frequency, mean, range and standard deviation. The data was also presented graphically. Results: The mean difference between the post test and pretest knowledge scores of staff nurses regarding the infection control measures in labour room was found to be highly significant (t₄₉=1.69, p<0.05). So hypothesis H₁ was accepted and hypothesis H₂ was only associated with age. Conclusion: Hence planned teaching program was affected for the staff nurses working in maternity unit regarding the infection control measures in labour room 

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