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A STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF STRUCTURED TEACHING PROGRAMME ON PLAY THERAPY AMONG MOTHERS WITH PRESCHOOL CHILDREN ATTENDING PAEDIATRIC OUT PATIENT DEPARTMENT IN A PRIVATE HOSPITAL AT SIVAKASI
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Mrs.V.Bavithra
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Play Therapy, Pre School Children, Effectiveness of Structure Teaching Programme
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Background: The play is natural and spontaneous among the pediatric age group and also dependents on individual interest, age, sex, various cultural and socio-economic status of the child. Play therapy helps children to relax which in turn makes the parents to feel relax. “Play is a child’s work and it is not a trivet pursuit” and It is a universal language of children. Statement of the Problem: A study to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on play therapy among mothers with preschool children attending Paediatric out patient department in a private hospital at Sivakasi. Objectives: (1) To assess the pretest knowledge scores on play therapy among mothers with preschool children attending Paediatric out patient department. (2) To assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on play therapy among mothers with preschool children attending Paediatric out patient department. (3) To associate between the pretest knowledge scores on play therapy among mothers with preschool children with their selected demographic variables. (4) To determine associates the post test knowledge scores on play therapy among with mothers with preschool children with their selected demographic variables. Design: Quasi experiment one group pre-test and post-test design. Participants: 60 mothers with preschool children who were attended in out patient Pediatric Department in Annai Nursing Home, Sivakasi who were fulfilling the inclusion criteria. Methods: 60 mothers with preschool children were selected by purposive sampling technique. After the pretest the structured teaching programme was implemented and post test was done by researcher. The data were collected after obtaining permission from the concerned authority of the selected hospital. Results: The knowledge score calculated paired ‘t’ test value of t = -12.7 shows statistically highly significant difference between Comparison of the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on play therapy among mothers with preschool children attending Paediatric out patient department respectively. Conclusion: The present study assessed the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on play therapy among mothers with preschool children attending Paediatric out patient department. The result shows in post test majority of mothers with preschool children 42 (70%) had inadequate level of knowledge. In post test, Majority of mothers with preschool children 31 (51.7%) had adequate level of knowledge. This finding shows that the structured teaching programme on play therapy among mothers with preschool children was effective. The study findings also imply that there was a significant association between knowledge with selected demographic variable age of the mothers, religion, occupation, family monthly income and type of the family.
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Mrs.V.Bavithra (April-2024). A STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF STRUCTURED TEACHING PROGRAMME ON PLAY THERAPY AMONG MOTHERS WITH PRESCHOOL CHILDREN ATTENDING PAEDIATRIC OUT PATIENT DEPARTMENT IN A PRIVATE HOSPITAL AT SIVAKASI. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NOVEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, 9(4), a603-a615. https://ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRD2404076.pdf
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Volume 9 Issue 4, April-2024
Pages : a603-a615
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Research Area: Health ScienceÂ
Country: Virudhunagar, Tamilnadu, India
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