A Comparative Interventional Study Between Video Assisted Teaching and Demonstration in Improving Skills of B.Sc. Nursing 4th Year Students on Obstetrical Palpation, in the Selected Nursing Colleges of Bilaspur (C.G.)

Abstract

Abdominal palpation can be used as a means to assess, length, frequency, and strength of uterine contractions and postnatally to gauge uterine involution. In obstetrics, Leopold manoeuvres are a common and systematic way to determine the position of a foetus inside the woman's uterus; they are named after the Gynaecologist Christian Gerhard Leopold. Objective: To assess the effectiveness of video assisted teaching programme on skills regarding obstetrical palpation. To assess the effectiveness of demonstration on skills regarding obstetrical palpation. To compare the video assisted teaching with demonstration. Materials and Methods: A comparative interventional research design was adopted for this study. A total number of 60 students of B.Sc. Nursing 4th year was selected and divided into two groups, Group 1- video assisted teaching and Group 2- demonstration was selected by convenient sampling method. The study was adopted one group pre-test post-test design. Data was collected by assessing the skill through observational checklist method. Impact skill given to students by using video assisted teaching and demonstration method. Results: The present study assessed the skills of B.Sc. Nursing 4th year students regarding obstetrical palpation. The overall mean percentage of video assisted teaching in pre-test was 11.46 (1.27%) and post-test was 24.4 (2.71%) with standard deviation (2.588) with a positive difference, and mean percentage of demonstration in pre-test was 7 (0.77%) and post-test was 17.6 (1.95%) with standard deviation (3.826). Conclusion: The study revealed that students of B.Sc nursing 4th year gained skill after the video assisted teaching and demonstration. Analysis of data shows that the post-test skill score of video assisted teaching is significantly higher than the post-test skill score of demonstration at P<0.05 level of significance.