A pre-experimental study to evaluate the effectiveness of Planned Teaching Programme (PTP) on knowledge regarding prevention of worm infestation among primary school children in selected schools, Kolhapur

Abstract

A pre-experimental study to evaluate effectiveness of Planned Teaching Programme (PTP) on knowledge regarding prevention of worm infestation among primary school children in selected schools at Kolhapur”. A Pre experimental, one group pretest & posttest research design was used, which consisted a group of 60 subjects that were selected by using Probability, systematic sampling technique. Data was collected by using structured knowledge questionnaire regarding prevention of worm infestation. A PTP was administered to the subjects at the end of the pretest and a post test was conducted 7 days after pretest and from administration of PTP. The result shows that, out of 60 primary school children, In pretest maximum subjects 31 (51.68%) had poor knowledge and 28 subjects (46.66%) had average knowledge and 1(1.66%) of the subjects had good knowledge, where as in posttest 42 (70.00%) subjects had average knowledge, 14 (23.34%) of subjects had good knowledge and 04(6.66%) of the subjects had poor knowledge. The calculated paired ‘t’ value (t cal = 7.8) is greater than tabulated value (t tab = 2.00).This indicates that the gain in knowledge score is significant at P