American Journal of Advances in Nursing Research

EFFECTIVENESS OF STRUCTURED TEACHING PROGRAMME ON KNOWLEDGE REGARDING HOUSEHOLD WASTE MANAGEMENT AMONG RURAL PEOPLE IN SELECTED RURAL AREA, BANGALORE

Dr. Tejeshwari B.V

tejeshwinirajesh@gmail.com

Effectiveness, Knowledge, STP and house hold management

Waste management consider as all the type of activities and action required to manage waste from its inception to its last level of disposal. Now the day?s waste management becomes a headache to all authorities. Waste management conveys the management of various activities like collections of waste, separation of waste items, storage of it and its transportation, transfer, processing of its treatment and disposal of waste item collected. It includes the action to reduce waste through material efficiency, waste reduction and the recovery reusing of discarded material. OBJECTIVES:To assess the pretest knowledge of rural people regarding household waste management, in selected rural area, Bangalore. To assess the post-test knowledge of rural people regarding household waste management, in selected rural area, Bangalore.To assess the effectiveness structure teaching programme as regarding household waste management in selected area, Bangalore. Design: Evaluative research approach was used for the study. The sample consisted of 30, 20 housewives and 10 men were recruited by non-probability purposive sampling method. Necessary administrative permission was obtained from concerned authority. Written informed consent was obtained from all subjects. Then the investigator collected the data pertaining to the demographic variables by using structured interview schedule. The instrument used for the data collection was structured knowledge questionnaire for assessing the knowledge score. Setting: The study was conducted in selected rural area, Bangalore, Karnataka. Result: The findings of the study was revealed that the mean score of knowledge regarding house hold management was 14.6 in pre-test and 22.5 in post-test out of maximum score of 20, which proved that structured teaching programme was effective in increasing the knowledge level of rural people regarding house hold management. The paired„t? test found be statistically significance at 0.05 levels. Conclusion: - The present study attempted to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge of rural people regarding house hold management and it was found that the structured teaching programme was effective in improving the knowledge of rural people