Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Program on Knowledge Regarding Epilepsy in Children among school teachers.

Abstract

Childhood is a unique phase of human development. Children are the important feature of every society and also a future of a nation.Though epilepsy is a symptom primarily of a neurological disorder it has a great extent psychiatric and psychological involvement. Epilepsy may cause personality disturbance, depression, poor academic ability, poor self confidence, learning difficulties. The aim of the study was to assess the knowledge regarding epilepsy in children among school teachers before and after the Structured Teaching Programme (STP). The data were generated by using structured questionnaire, Simple random sampling technique was adopted to select 50 subjects based on the sample frame and every 2 nd sample was selected for the study. STP was developed in regard to knowledge on epilepsy in children. The data obtained from the study subjects were analyzed and interpreted in term of the objectives and hypothesis of the study. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used for data analysis; the level was set at 0.05 levels. The mean post test score 36.10 was higher than the mean pre test score 25.38. The computed"t" value 23.321, indicated that there was a significant difference between pre test and post test knowledge score. The findings identified that there was no significant association between pre test knowledge score of teachers and the selected personal variables, which shows the knowledge of school teachers was independent of selected personal variables. This study revealed that the knowledge of teachers regarding epilepsy in children was inadequate and was increased after the administration of STP. Thus the research hypothesis was accepted.