A Pre-Experimental Study to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on Knowledge Regarding Management of Cold Chain System for Vaccine Among Basic B.Sc. Nursing 2nd Year Students at School & College of Nursing, Dhamtari, Chhattisgarh

Abstract

Introduction: Vaccine is an immune-biological- substance designed to produce specific protection against a given disease. It stimulates the production of protective antibody and other immune mechanisms. “Cold chain maintenance” is the system of storage and transport of vaccines at a low temperature from the manufacturer to the actual vaccine site. In general, all vaccines must be stored under the conditions recommended by the manufacturer in the literature accompanying the vaccines otherwise they become denatured and totally ineffective. Objectives: To determine the pre-test and post-test score on knowledge regarding management of cold chain system for vaccine among basic B.sc nursing 2nd year students at School & College of Nursing Dhamtari. C.G. To evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme score on knowledge regarding management of cold chain system for vaccine among basic B.sc nursing 2nd year students School & College of Nursing Dhamtari. C.G. Methods: A pre-experimental, one group pretest posttest design was adopted; purposive sampling technique was used to select 60 subjects based on certain pre-determined criteria. The data generated by using investigator developed structured questionnaire, content validity of investigator developed tool was obtained from experts of related departments. Out of the 60 students, overall score on knowledge during pretest In pretest, maximum 50(83.33%) student knowledge was average followed 5(8.33%) is good, 5(8.33%) is need improvement and 0% is excellent. In posttest, maximum 36(60%) subjects are having good knowledge 14 (23.33%) are having average knowledge and 10(16.67%) a subject having excellent knowledge. Increase the knowledge level reveals that the structured teaching programme was effective. Conclusion: This study reveals that Significant difference found between the pre-test (38.9) and post-test (62.3) percentage of gain knowledge was 34.1. So, the structured teaching programme was effective.