To Assess Effectiveness of Planned Teaching Program on Knowledge Regarding Eye Donation among Students in Selected Junior College of Navi Mumbai

Abstract

Background: Eyes are one of the most important sensory organs in the human body, which renders vision and power to see. The act of donating one’s eye after his/her death is eye donation. Eye donation is act of charity, purely for the benefit of the society, and it’s totally voluntary.

Aims and Objectives: The aim of the study was to assess the effectiveness of planned teaching program on knowledge regarding eye donation among students in selected junior college of Navi Mumbai, to assess the knowledge regarding eye donation among the junior college students before planned teaching program, to assess the effectiveness after planned teaching program on knowledge regarding eye donation among the junior college students by comparing pre-test and post-test knowledge scores, and to determine the association between pretest knowledge score in relation to selected demographic variable. Materials and

Methods: The research approach is quantitative and the research design is quasi-experimental design and non-probability convenient sampling technique is used. The sample of the study was 50 from Bharati Vidyapeeth Junior College, Belapur. Structured questionnaire is the tool used for data collection. Demographic and knowledge on eye donation were analyzed using descriptive statistics.

Results: The 50 samples from Bharati Vidyapeeth Junior College, Belapur, were taken for data collection. The pre-test knowledge score is that samples with poor knowledge were 1.60% while average knowledge score were 60%, good knowledge were 38.33%, and excellent knowledge were 0. In post-test, the sample with poor knowledge score was 0 while average knowledge were 6.66%, good knowledge were 65%, and excellent were 28.33%. By t-test, the two-tailed P <0.0001 was obtained, and by conventional criteria, the difference is considered to be extremely significant.

Conclusion: As per findings and interpretation of the data analysis, the result shows that planned teaching program is useful for the junior college students to update their knowledge regarding eye donation.