A study to evaluate the effectiveness of nursing guidelines on epilepsy management among patients in selected hospital, Salem

Abstract

Objectives: To evaluate the effectiveness of nursing guidelines on epilepsy management for patients. Methods: A quantitative study with quasi-experimental one group pre-test post test research design was applied. A non probability purposive sample of 30 patients was applied. Tools: Three tools were used: (1) Structured interview questionnaire withdemographic variables of patients,knowledge assessment questionnaire. (2) Epilepsy risk awareness scale, (3) patients reported practices questionnaire. Results:The mean pre-test score was 8 with standard deviation 4.23 and mean post-test score was 20.67 with standard deviation 3.06. The paired “t” value of pre-test and post-test was 18.39 which was found to be statistically significant at p