A Quasi experimental study was conducted to assess the effect of planned health teaching on knowledge regarding care of pressure sore among caregivers of non ambulatory client's in selected hospital of PCMC area in Pune city. The samples consisting of 60 Caregivers of Non-Ambulatory client's was selected by using a simple random sampling technique. The tool comprises of knowledge questionnaires. The pre-test was conducted and planned health teaching was administered on caregiver's of non-ambulatory client's immediately after the pre-test.the post test was conducted after one week of pre testwith same questionnaires. The data obtained were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. In pre-test the sampled subjects were having poor knowledge regarding care of pressure sore i.e. about 41%. and in the post-test the sampled subject had an improved knowledge regarding care of pressure sore.i.e. about 100 %. In relation to Planned teaching program, the paired "t" test showed that, the teaching program was statistically significant at p<0.0001 level in caregiver's of nonambulatoryclient's. These data proved that the knowledge of caregiver's of nonambulatory client's had been markedly increased after the administration of planned teaching program
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Sharma, M., Vyas, H., & Purbia, V. (2014). Effectiveness of Planned Health Teaching Programme on Knowledge Regarding Care of Pressure Sores Among Caregivers of Non-Ambulatory Clients. IOSR Journal of Nursing and Health Science, 3(2), 32–36. https://doi.org/10.9790/1959-03223236
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