DISCUSSION - Effectiveness of planned teaching programme on knowledge regarding hospital acquired infections and their prevention among the patients admitted in selected hospitals

 

DISCUSSION

The chapter attempts to discuss the significant findings on the knowledge about hospital acquired infections and their prevention among the patients in selected hospitals at Kalaburgi, Karnataka. This chapter discusses with the findings of data analysis in accordance with the objectives and stated hypotheses of the present study. The statement of problem is, “Effectiveness of planned teaching programme on knowledge regarding hospital acquired infections and their prevention among the patients admitted in selected hospitals”

 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY:-

ü  To assess the pre test knowledge of patients regarding hospital acquired infections and their prevention. 

ü  To plan and implement planned teaching programme regarding hospital acquired infections and their prevention. 

ü  To assess the post test knowledge of patients regarding hospital acquired infections and their prevention. 

ü  To assess the effectiveness of planned teaching programme on knowledge regarding hospital acquired infections and their prevention.

ü  To associate knowledge of patients regarding hospital acquired infections and their prevention with demographic variables.

The first objective of the study is: - To assess the pre test knowledge of patients regarding hospital acquired infections and their prevention. 

Based on the above objective of the study the data was collected by the investigator during the pre-test revealed that the knowledge of patients on hospital acquired infections and their prevention. The pre-test data revealed that, majority of patients 48(80%) had inadequate level of knowledge about hospital acquired infections and their prevention, whereas 12(20%) of patients had moderate level of knowledge and none of patients had adequate knowledge regarding hospital acquired infections and their prevention before administration of planned teaching programme.

The third objective of the study is: - To assess the post test knowledge of patients regarding hospital acquired infections and their prevention. 

The findings of the study revealed a significant increase in the post-test knowledge score of patients after the administration of planned teaching programme. The post test data revealed that, majority of patients 40(66.67%) had average level of knowledge about hospital acquired infections and their prevention, whereas 20(33.33%) of patients had moderate level of knowledge and none of patients had inadequate knowledge regarding hospital acquired infections and their prevention after administration of planned teaching programme.

The fourth objective of the study is: - To evaluate the effectiveness of planned teaching programme on hospital acquired infections and their prevention in by comparing pre-test and post-test knowledge scores

The pre-test table depicts that, pre-test level of knowledge of patientson pre-test knowledge level regarding hospital acquired infections and their prevention. In the table it is noticeable that majority of patients 48(80%) had inadequate level of knowledge about hospital acquired infections and their prevention, whereas 12(20%) of patients had moderate level of knowledge and none of patients had adequate knowledge regarding hospital acquired infections and their prevention before administration of planned teaching programme.

The post-test table depicts that, post-test level of knowledge of patients on hospital acquired infections and their prevention, in which majority of patients 40(66.67%) had average level of knowledge about hospital acquired infections and their prevention whereas 20(33.33%) of patients had moderate level of knowledge and none of patients had inadequate knowledge regarding hospital acquired infections and their prevention after administration of planned teaching programme.

The fifth objective of the study is: - To find the association between the patientsknowledge regarding hospital acquired infections and their prevention with selected demographical variables.

The association of knowledge level of patients regarding hospital acquired infections and their prevention before administering the planned teaching programme with their selected demographical variables, using Chi –square test. The analysis revealed that there is significant association was found with – religion, educational qualification, marital status and occupation at p < 0.05 and no association could be found with other demographic variables of patients.

HYPOTHESIS TESTING

ü  H₁ :- There will be significant association between pre-test and post-test knowledge of patients regarding hospital acquired infections and their prevention with their selected demographic variables.

ü  H₂ :- There will be significant difference in the level of knowledge of patients regarding hospital acquired infections and their prevention before and after planned teaching programme.

Hypothesis testing was done to evaluate the effectiveness of planned teaching programme on knowledge of patients regarding hospital acquired infections and their prevention. The unpaired‘t’ test was used to test the hypothesis and significant difference in the level of knowledge between pr-test and post-test. Chi-square test was used to test the hypothesis and significant association in knowledge between pre-test and socio-demographic variables.

            The overall mean score of pretest is 2.3(43.7%) and overall mean score of post-test was 2.7(76.0%) knowledge.

Based on the unpaired‘t’ value of the findings H₁ is accepted as there was significant association between pre-test and post test scores of the patients with their selected demographic variables regarding hospital acquired infections and their prevention. And also H₂ was also accepted as there was significant association between pre- test scores and post test scores of the patients.