2024, Vol. 6, Issue 1, Part C

Aims and Objectives: To Assess the effectiveness of a Planned Teaching Programme on Glasgow Coma Scale Pupil Score (GCS-P) in terms of Knowledge and Practice among the Staff Nurses, moreover to find out the correlation between Knowledge and Practice and to find out the association between Knowledge and Practice with selected Demographic Data.

Materials and Methods: The study was conducted among 50 Staff Nurses working in Trauma Centre of Civil Hospital, Ahmedabad City using Simple Random Sampling technique. Data were obtained using Structured Knowledge Questionnaire to Assess Knowledge and Structured Observational Checklist to Assess the Practice. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the Demographic Data, Structured Knowledge Questionnaire and Structured Observational Checklist. Karl Pearson’s formula was used to find out correlation whereas the association was determined by using Chi Square formula.

Results and Conclusions: The study revealed that the Mean Post-test Knowledge score (20.16) was higher than Mean Pre-test Knowledge score (11.28) and calculated ‘t’ value was 27.30 which was higher than tabulated ‘t’ value 2.0096. The Mean Post-test Practice score (12.32) was higher than Mean Pre-test Practice score (7.22) and calculated ‘t’ value was 27.80 which was higher than tabulated ‘t’ value 2.0096. There exists a positive correlation (r=0.5) between Post-test Knowledge and Post-test Practice score. Study also revealed that there is no significant association between Pre-test Knowledge score and selected Demographic Data of the Samples. Whereas there was no significant association between Pre-test Practice score and selected Demographic Data except Gender of the Samples on Glasgow Coma Scale Pupil Score (GCS-P).