A study to assess the effectiveness of Self-Instructional Module on knowledge regarding Multi Drug Resistance Tuberculosis among staff nurses in selected hospital of Gurugram Knowledge regarding Multi Drug Resistance Tuberculosis

Abstract

Objective: To assess the effectiveness of self-instructional module on knowledge regarding multi drug resistance
tuberculosis among staff nurses in SGT hospital’’.
Material and Methods: An evaluative approach with one group pre-test, post-test design was used for the study. The
purposive sampling technique was used to select 50 staff nurses as the sample. A structure knowledge questionnaire was
used to assess the knowledge and SIM was administered to find its effectiveness. The collected data was analyzed by
using descriptive and inferential statistics.
Result: The mean percentage of post-test knowledge score (16.48) was higher than the mean percentage of pre-test
knowledge score (7.4). The calculated ‘t’ value is greater than the table value (0.05, 49df) i.e. 2.67. It showed a significant
difference between mean pre and post-test knowledge scores. Calculated x2 values showed significant association between
Education and area of residence of respondents with their post-test knowledge scores.
Conclusion: The findings of the study showed that staff nurses had inadequate knowledge regarding multi drug resistance
tuberculosis before administration of SIM. The results indicated that the SIM is effective in increasing the knowledge of
staff nurses on multi drug resistance tuberculosis.