Assess the Prevalence of Water Borne Diseases and Effectiveness of Demonstration Assisted Planned Teaching Programme on Knowledge Regarding Water Purification Techniques and Safe Storage Practices at House Hold Level
Author : Dr. Gurpreet Kaur
Abstract :
A pre experimental study to assess the prevalence of water borne diseases and effectiveness of demonstration assisted planned teaching programme on knowledge regarding water purification techniques and safe storage practices at house hold level among women in selected rural areas of Mukerian, District Hoshiarpur, Punjab. The sample of 200 women was selected by non-randomized sampling technique. Data was collected by using structured knowledge questionnaire. The result shows the prevalence of water borne disease was 12.8% of which typhoid fever (5.6%), diarrhea (4.5%) and gastro enteritis (2.7%). The pre-test and post-test level of knowledge on water purification technique and safe storage practices at household level among women reveals that in pre-test majority 126 (63%) had average knowledge followed by 65(32.5%) had below average knowledge and only 9(4.5%) had good knowledge whereas on post-test, majority 100 (50%) had good knowledge, 91(45.5%) had excellent knowledge and 9(4.5%) had average knowledge regarding water purification technique and safe storage practices. Hence, H1 hypothesis was accepted as difference between mean pretest and posttest knowledge score was significantly highly significant at p<0.005.
Keywords :
Water borne diseases, water purification techniques, NGO etc.
