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Journal of Nursing Science & Practice

Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on Knowledge Regarding Disaster and Disaster Preparedness among School Going Children

  1. Saurabh Lakra
  2. Nisha .
  3. Tanisha .
  4. Komal .
  5. Aparna .
  6. Shelly .
  7. Roopal yadav
  8. Shivani Sharma
  9. Shubham .
  10. Pooja .
  11. Nidhi Chhillar
  12. Priyanka .
  13. Nitu .
  14. Jyoti Kumari malik
  15. Bisht R.

Abstract

Introduction: A disaster is an extreme description of the functioning of a society that causeswidespread human, material, or environment losses that exceed the ability of the affectedsociety to cope using only its own resources. Incidents such as cyclones, landslides andhurricanes, by themselves are not contemplated as natural catastrophe. Rather, they becomedisasters when they adversely and seriously affect human life, livelihood and property.Disaster alertness, therefore, attempt to ready for and minimize these unfavorable events.Methodology: Pre experimental one group pre-test post-test study was undertaken to assessthe effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding disaster anddisaster preparedness among school going children, Gurugram, Haryana. Total 60 studyparticipants were selected by purposive sampling technique and data was collected by using aself-structured knowledge questionnaire. Result: The findings of the study revealed that halfof the participants (53.3%) had good knowledge regarding disaster and disaster preparednessin the pre-test. Similarly, the post-test scores depicted that majority (50%) had very good andgood knowledge regarding disaster and disaster preparedness. Most of the demographicvariable was not significantly associated with level of pre knowledge of school going childrenregarding disaster and disaster preparedness except class/standard p = .000 was found tostatistically significant at 0.05 level of significance. There was significant difference betweenthe knowledge of school going children before and after the implementation of structuredteaching programme (t = 19.520, p =.000). Conclusion: It was concluded that structuredteaching programme was an effective strategy which can help to increase school goingchildren knowledge regarding disaster and disaster preparedness.
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