A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Proframme on Knowledge regarding Umbilical Cord Blood Stem Cell Therapy among III Year B.SC. Nursing students in selected Nursing College at Rajkot

Abstract

A study to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding umbilical cord blood stem cell therapy among III year B.Sc. Nursing students in selected nursing college, at Rajkot. The objectives of the study was (a) To Assess the existing knowledge regarding umbilical cord blood stem cell therapy among III-year B.Sc. Nursing Students in selected Nursing College at Rajkot. (b) To Assess the effectiveness of Structured teaching programmed (STP) on knowledge regarding umbilical cord blood stem cell therapy among III-year B.Sc. Nursing Students in selected Nursing College at Rajkot. (c) To find out Association between their selected Demographic variables and their pre-test level of knowledge regarding umbilical cord blood stem cell therapy. The research design adopted was One Group Pre-test and Post-test design. The study had been conducted in selected college at Rajkot. Non probability sampling technique had been adopted to select the desired samples. The sample size was 40. As a part of intervention, a STP on knowledge regarding umbilical cord blood stem cell therapy was provided to students for 30 minutes and the data was collected by structured interview with set of questionnaires that is administered to assess the level of knowledge regarding umbilical cord blood stem cell therapy among III year B.Sc. Nursing students in selected nursing college, at Rajkot. The data were analyzed by using both descriptive and inferential statistical method paired “t” test was used to evaluating the effectiveness of STP on knowledge regarding umbilical cord blood stem cell therapy. The obtained value 20.693, which shows highly significant at the level of p<0.001. There is significant association between demographic variables such as gender, types of family with pretest level of knowledge on umbilical cord blood stem cell therapy. The study concluded that the STP was effectiveness in improving of knowledge regarding umbilical cord blood stem cell therapy.