A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Planned Teaching Programme on Alzheimer’s Disease among Old Age People Residing in Selected Old Age Home at Vadodara City

Abstract

BACKGROUND: This study was design to improve the knowledge of Alzheimer’s disease of old age people in old age home at Vadodara city. Emphasis was put on trying to establish the relation between age, gender, history of mental illness, educational status, family member working in health care centre, Previous exposure for knowledge of Alzheimer’s disease. The validity and reliability of research instruments was established and data was collected from 60 old age people selected old age home. To analyse the data and correlation statistics tool was used with aim of establishing to find association of knowledge of Alzheimer’s disease with selected demographic variable. METHOD: A quantitative research approach with preexperimental one group pre-test post-test design with non-probability purposive sampling to collect the 30 samples. A self-structured questionnaire was prepared to assess the knowledge of Alzheimer’s disease on old age people. RESULT: The finding shows that association between Pre-test knowledge score of the old age people with selected Demographic variables which includes Age, Gender, History of mental illness, Educational status, Family members working in health care sector and Previous exposure for knowledge of Alzheimer’s disease.The pre-test mean score of knowledge of old age people is and 10.33(34.3%) and post-test mean score of knowledge is 22.54(75.1%) the mean difference of pre-test and post-test of knowledge is 12.21%. The paired ‘t’ calculated value of knowledges 17.26% at 0.05 level of significance which is more than table value of ‘t’test. CONCLUSION: The following conclusion can be drawn from the study findings, which are supported by evidence from the other literature. The self-administered questioner has been shown remarkable association between knowledge questioner with demographic variable. Using the statistical formula, we have computed the association between the demographic variable Age, Gender, History of mental illness, educational status, family member working in health care sector, previous exposure for knowledge of Alzheimer’s disease and knowledge questioner.