Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on the Knowledge of Mothers Regarding the use of Zinc Supplementation in the Management of Diarrhea among the under Five Children in Selected Rural Areas of Indore, MP

The present study was semi exploratory survey type of study. The data was gathered using a pretest and post test approach. Subjects or mothers were selected using purposive sampling technique method. 40 samples were selected for the present study. The survey was done by the researcher to evaluate the information especially with respect to the advantages of zinc supplementation and to get organized information and to provide a structured teaching program regarding the benefits of zinc in the diarrheal disease. The mean pre test score of the study was around 11.95 which were increased to 20.33 in the posttest. This reveals the effectiveness of structured teaching programme. The difference between the pre test and post test was found to be very highly significant, which was evident by the paired t test value 13.60. The chi square was test also done to find out the significant association between the socio demographic characteristics and the knowledge score. There was no significant association between the demographic characteristics and the knowledge score when compared with age, number of kids, occupation, monthly family income, and religion. Significant association was found especially between the instructive status of mothers and the knowledge score 9.95. The findings of the present study concludes that the structured teaching programme with respect to the zinc supplementation in the pre test was very less which was improved drastically in the posttest. Structured teaching programme was found to be really very effective which is evident by the post test score. The findings of the data also reveals that the structured teaching programme is viable system of providing data and helps in the improvement in the knowledge of the mothers.