Assess the knowledge among higher secondary school students regarding dog bite treatment and its prevention from rabies at selected school in Indore

Abstract

Rabies is a viral zoonosis, an animal disease transmissible to humans, caused by rhabdoviruses of the genus Lyssavirus, aimed “to assess the effectiveness of planned teaching program on dog bite treatment and its prevention from rabies among higher secondary school students” A Pre-Experimental research study with structured knowledge questionnaire pre & posttest plan teaching program is design adopted. Non probability convenient sampling techniques to select 30 higher secondary school students for study. The tool is administered after validity and reliability. Pre-test knowledge score mean is 10.40, SD is 1.94 and posttest knowledge score was 19.33, SD 0.71, and used paired t value is -25.854 and P value is 0.001* statistically different was found.