Effectiveness of structured computer based education programme to develop & enhance the knowledge on coronary artery disease among patients with hypertension

Abstract

Coronary artery disease is one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality all over the world. Here is a need to identify the gap in knowledge among public which is assumed as a reason for the high prevalence of the disease. An experimental study to assess the effectiveness of structured computer based education programme to develop and enhance the knowledge on CAD among Hypertensive population. A quantitative evaluative pretest post test design was adopted for the study. The study was conducted North & South Mahabalipuram in Kanchipuram District. The samples of the study were hypertensive patients who are fulfilled the sampling criteria between the age group of 35-65 years. The purposive sampling technique was used to select the 142 samples for the study. In that 71 samples were consider experimental group and 71 samples were control group. The data collection instrument was the structured questionnaire to assess the knowledge on CAD. The results revealed that in the post test of the experimental group, the overall mean and SD was 18.99 ± 1.56. In the control group, overall mean and SD was 9.08 ± 3.219. The t test value was t=28.408 which was greater than the table value and revealed that there was a high significant difference between the experimental and control group. So it depicts that the computer based education programme is effective.