A study to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding cardiac arrhythmia and its management among student nurses of Adesh University Bathinda, Punjab India

Abstract

Background: The word Cardiac Arrhythmia was derived from Latin word “Cardiac’’ means heart, “A’’ means disturbance, distortion, or without and ``Rhythmia’’ means to measure continuous normal rhythm. WHO, estimates about 60% of the total worlds cardiac patient will be Indians.Objectives1. To assess the knowledge regarding Cardiac Arrhythmia and its management among experimental and control group by pre-test. 2. To assess and the effectiveness of STP on knowledge regarding Cardiac Arrhythmia and its management among experimental and control group by post-test. 3.To find out the association between the post-test scores level of knowledge regarding Cardiac Arrhythmia and its management among experimental group with their selected socio- demographic variables. Methods: A quasi experimental one group pre-test and post-test design. Questionnaire was used to collect the data from 50 student nurses, Pre-test was conducted and after the STP was given to the same group and post-test was conducted after 7days of teaching. Result: The results shows a significant difference, calculated p