“A Study to assess the effectiveness of planned teaching on knowledge regarding selected respiratory diseases among workers working in cotton mills of Sangli district”.

Abstract

“A Study to assess the effectiveness of planned teaching regarding selected respiratory diseases on
knowledge among workers working in cotton mills of Sangli district”.
Objectives of the study1. To assess the pre-test knowledge regarding respiratory diseases.
2. To assess the post-test knowledge regarding respiratory diseases.
3. To compare the pre-test knowledge with post-test knowledge score.
4. To find out the association between pre-test knowledge scores with demographic variables.
Hypothesis of the studyHo - There is no effect of planned teaching on knowledge regarding selected respiratory diseases.
H1 - There is effect of planned teaching on knowledge regarding selected respiratory diseases.

Research methodology:
The present study was carried out by using a quantitative research approach with Quasi-experimental one group-pretest-post-test-design. In the present study the independent variable was planned teaching and dependent variable was
Knowledge. The study was conducted at selected cotton mills of Sangli District. The samples were cotton mill
workers of Sangli District. Researcher considered inclusion and exclusion criteria to select samples for the study.
The appropriate sample size for a study was determined as per calculation was 120. Taking the factors into
consideration those 120samples were selected for final data collection.Sampling technique used was the cluster
method by using simple random sampling technique. Data collection was done using structured knowledge
questionnaire and data was analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics
Results and Conclusion:
 The findings of the study showed that, at the time of pre-test majority 52.5% of cotton mill workers had
poor knowledge ,while 47.5 % had average knowledge regarding selected respiratory diseases. At the time of posttest, majority 87.5% of cotton mill workers had good knowledge while 12.5 % had average knowledge regarding
selected respiratory diseases. In comparison of pre test and post-test knowledge score, The pre-test average score
was 10.24 with S.D 2.24, while the post-test average score was 18.63 with S.D 2.0. The table value was
36.000416, while the value of 'p' was 0.00001, which is less than 0.05 and therefore H1 hypothesis was accepted .
This indicates that the planned teaching was productive and showed an increase in the level of knowledge among
cotton mill workers regarding selected respiratory diseases. The p value of the variables like age (0.355791),
education (0.537944), work of experience (0.761489) of cotton mill workers was less than 0.05, hence there was
no significant association of these demographic variables with the pre-test knowledge score regarding selected
respiratory disease.