A STUDY TO EVALUATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF STRUCTURED TEACHING PROGRAM ON KNOWLEDGE REGARDING COVID – 19 AMONG FIRST GNM STUDENTS : TUMKUR

Objectives: 1. To assess the level of knowledge regarding COVID-19 among first year GNM students. 2. To evaluate the effectiveness of STP regarding COVID-19 by comparing pre-test and post-test knowledge level. 3. To find out the association between pre-test knowledge level regarding COVID-19 among first year GNM students with selected demographic variables. Methodology: a pre-experimental one group pre-test post-test design and a quantitative research approach was carried out on 60 first year GNM students selected by Convenient sampling technique to test the effectiveness of structured teaching programme. The data was collected by using structured questionnaire consists of 42 items. Results: The present study evaluates and found that demographic variables, majority 65% of them were in the age group of 18-19 years, majority 61.7% of them were females, majority 53.3% of them were living in nuclear family,56.7%of them were below Rs.5000, majority 35% of them hobby is using social media, majority 76.7%of them were hosteller, Majority 58.3% of them had information from social media. Conclusion: The data were analysed by applying descriptive and inferential statistics. The result of the study indicated that after intervention there was an improvement in the knowledge and they gain good knowledge about covid-19. Analysis data shows that highly significance difference found between the pre-test and post-test knowledge scores at the level of (P<0.05). The hypothesis is proved and accepted.