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“TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF INFORMATION EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATION ON KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PRACTICE OF CARE GIVERS ON PATIENT FALL PREVENTION AT SRM GENERAL HOSPITAL, KATTANKULATHUR.”

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Mrs.Sasikala. G, Dr. C. Kanniyammal, Mrs. Priyadarshini, Dr. Bimini Devi
» doi: 10.31838/ecb/2023.12.s2.338

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INTRODUCTION: Fall is considered to be a major public health problem handling of fall was challenging and currently many older adults face one of the most common and significant problem. OBJECTIVES: 1. To assess the level of knowledge, attitude and practice of care givers on patient fall prevention. 2. To determine the effectiveness of information education and communication on level of knowledge, attitude and practice of care givers on patient fall prevention. 3. To correlate post-test level of the knowledge, attitude and practice of information education and communication (IEC) of care givers on patient fall prevention.4. To associate the post-test level of knowledge, attitude and practice on patient fall prevention with their selected demographic variables of the care givers. METHODS: The research approach was quantitative and design was one group pre and post-test design. sample size was 70 care givers of patient were selected who fulfilled with purposive sampling technique, used semi structured questionnaires for assessing the demographic variables, knowledge, attitude and attitude and practice regarding fall prevention, Following to the pre- test, intervention of education (IEC package) information and booklet distributed and carried out on 7th day post- test was assessed by using the same questionnaire knowledge assessed by using self-structure questionnaires and level of attitude five point likers scale, practice was assessed by observational check list. RESULTS: The result revealed that during post-test of patient care givers knowledge on fall prevention was adequate with a mean score of 12.7 it was significant at p < 0.05 .patient care givers attitude were improved about mean 66.97 which was significant at p < 0.05. Regarding practice on fall prevention of care givers showed improvement posttest practice level mean 12.09 at p < 0.05. CONCLUSION: The study concludes that the IEC package was effective to improve the knowledge, attitude and practice on fall prevention among patient care giver.

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