A Study to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on Knowledge Regarding Menstrual Blood Banking among Nursing Students in Selected College of Nursing at Gonda

Abstract

Menstrual blood stem cell banking is the process of banking of menstrual blood for the purpose of cell therapy. Menstrual blood banking helps the women to store their menstrual blood and preserve it for future. Menstrual blood banking is an innovative, promising, cost effective, novel and ethically acceptable alternative concept. This needs to be popularised in the field of medicine. The Objective of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching Programme on knowledge regarding Menstrual Blood Banking among third year GNM students. Methods: Research design selected for this study is Pre experimental one group pre-test post-test. Non-Probability - purposive sampling technique was used to select the sample. Structured knowledge questionnaire was used to assess the knowledge of third year GNM students regarding menstrual blood banking. Results: Findings of the study revealed that in pre-test, majority 23 (46%) of nursing students had inadequate knowledge regarding menstrual blood banking and in post-test, majority 34 (68%) of nursing students had adequate knowledge. Mean Post-test knowledge was higher than the mean pre-test knowledge score of 10.62. In order to test the difference between the 2 means, t-test was computed and the obtained‘t’ value of 7.44 was found to be statistically highly significant at 0.01 level.  Conclusions: Structured teaching programme was effective to enhance the knowledge of nursing students regarding menstrual blood stem cells banking.