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TNNMC Journal of Community Health Nursing
Year : 2014, Volume : 2, Issue : 1
First page : ( 15) Last page : ( 17)
Print ISSN : 2322-0244. Online ISSN : 2456-6969.

Effectiveness of trained community level workers on knowledge regarding diabetes mellitus

 Manonmani,  Thilagam,  Jayalakshmi

Asst. Professor, Omayal Achi College of Nursing, Chennai

Online published on 23 May, 2017.

Abstract

The study was undertaken to assess the effectiveness of trained community level workers on knowledge regarding diabetes mellitus among general public. The research design used for this study was pre experimental one group pretest-post test design. Non probability purposive sampling technique was used to select 315 samples for the study. The mean pretest level of knowledge score was 6.57 with S.D 5.19. The mean post test level of knowledge score was 21.72 with S.D 2.86. The overall mean improved score for knowledge ‘t ’value of 45.39 which was significant at p=0.001 level. The findings showed that there was a significant improvement of knowledge among general public in the post test after teaching was given by trained community level workers.

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Keywords

Diabetes mellitus, trained community level workers, general public.

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