Affiliation:
1. Shri Anand Institute of Nursing, Opp. Ghanteshwar Park, B/h Sainik Society, Jamnagar Road, Rajkot – 360006.
Abstract
A pre- experimental study to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding depression awareness among college teachers of selected colleges at Rajkot. The objectives of the study were (a) To assess the depression awareness among teachers. (b) To evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on depression awareness. (c) To find out the association between selected demographical variables with knowledge scores of depression awareness programme. The research approach selected for the study was quantitative research approach and pre-experimental research design – one group pre-test post-test design. The study was conducted at selected college at Rajkot. Total 60 samples were selected sample setting based on non-probability purposive sampling. The researcher used structured questionnaire for data collection regarding demographic variables and pre-test. As a part of intervention structured teaching programme was carried out on depression awareness among college teachers. The post-test score was measured with the same questionnaire after 07 days. The collected data were analyzed by using inferential statistical method t-test was used to evaluate the effectiveness of STP on the level of knowledge regarding depression awareness among college teachers. It revealed that there was significant improvement in the quality of life and increase the knowledge of depression awareness with the application of STP in the samples. It revealed the mean difference was 6.6, standard deviation of pre-test was 5.12, standard deviation of post-test was 7.59, and standard error was 0.7700734. The obtained ’t’-test value for the level of knowledge (-7.99) that was highly significant at p<0.05 level hence the hypothesis was accepted. It is inferred that STP was effective in increase the knowledge regarding depression awareness and improving the quality of life among college teachers at selected college at Rajkot.
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