“A Study to Assess the Effect of Health Teaching on Knowledge and Practice, Regarding Feeding Technique among Care Takers of Cerebral Palsy Children in Selected Orphanages in Palanpur.”

Abstract

A study conducted to assess the effect of health teaching on knowledge and practice, regarding feeding technique among care takers of cerebral palsy children in selected orphanages in Palanpur. Material & Method: The Evaluative approach and pre- experimental one group pre test post test design was adopted for this study. Non probability purposive sampling technique was used for sample selection. The data were collected from 30 care takers of cerebral palsy children. The study was conducted at smt. indumati rajnikant mehta 'anand niketan' School for the Mentally Divyang, Palanpur. Structured question for knowledge & Observational checklist for Practice tool was used to gather the data. Through SPSS, both descriptive and inferential statistics were used for data analysis. Results: Result showed that during pre-test majority 19 (63.3%) had poor knowledge, 11 (36.3%) had average knowledge & 22 (73.3%) had poor practice, 8 (26.7%) had average practice. where as in post-test maximum 22 (70.3%) had good knowledge, 8 (26.7%) had average knowledge & 21 (70%) had good practice, 9 (30%) had average practice regarding feeding technique among care takers of cerebral palsy children. Result on knowledge showed that post-test mean knowledge score 16.43±3.05 was higher than mean pre-test knowledge score 8.53±2.45 with mean difference of 7.90 with calculated value (t=16.05 at df=29, p=0.001) was found significant. For practice post test mean practice score 11.20±1.62 & mean pre test practice score 5.20±1.73 with mean difference of 6.0 with calculated value (t=20.57 at df=29, p=0.001) was found significant.