Ms. Suhashini
Nursing
August 2024
Treatment given to women after an abortion to alleviate painful side effects and to promote their health is known as post-abortion care. Abortion is the procedure of terminating a pregnancy by removing the baby or embryo before it can live outside the uterus. The aim of the “A STUDY TO EVALUATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF STRUCTURED TEACHING PROGRAMME REGARDING THE POST ABORTION CARE AMONG B.Sc. NURSING IV YEAR STUDENTS IN SELECTED COLLEGES AT KALABURAGI”. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the collected data, which was then interpreted in light of the study's goals and hypothesis. A significance threshold of 0.05 was established.The individuals' knowledge was deemed appropriate in the pretest, with a mean score of 20.0 and a standard deviation of 6.12. However, there was a considerable increase in knowledge in the post-test, with a mean score of roughly 33.0 and a standard deviation of 43.4.At the 0.05 level, a significant correlation was observed between the mean pretest knowledge level of fourth-year B.Sc. nursing students about abortion and its post-abortion treatment and sociodemographic characteristics such as family type and study branch. 55% of the respondents had acquired sufficient information by the post-test, compared to 66.7% who had insufficient knowledge at the pretest. Therefore, the study's findings show that an organized training program was successful in improving degree college girls' understanding of abortion and the care that follows.
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