Agin Navis Mary, - (2016) Effectiveness of child to child programme on road safety measures among middle school children in selected school at Kanyakumari district. Masters thesis, Sree Mookambika College of Nursing, Kulasekharam.
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Abstract
Road Traffic Accident is one of the major preventable public health problems and is on the rise which can be attributed to increase in the number of vehicles and life style changes and risky attitudes. Injuries to RTA as one of the prime causes to the global burden of diseases. The over all objective of the study was to assess the effectiveness of child to child programme on road safety measures by comparing the pre and post test knowledge scores. The study was carried out among 30 middle school children studying 6th and 7th standard samples were selected based on purposive sampling technique, designed as pre-experimental design with one group pre test and post test design. structured questionnaire to collect the data , analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics. The analysis revealed that there was a significant improvement in the mean knowledge pretest score was11.4 and post test score was18.4 child to child programme improved the knowledge .The T value found to be 2 at P<0.05 level of significance that showed there was a significant improvement in the knowledge levels. study shows that child to child programme has resulted in significant improvement in the knowledge, development of positive attitudes and healthy practices among study group students. Therefore special and continuous health education of school children, like child to child programme in their formative years improves their knowledge and helps to develop positive attitude and healthy practices, which will eventually help to reduces road traffic accident and diseases like diarrhoea, malnutrition etc, not only amongst the children but also amongst their family members.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | RTA; Child to child programme |
| Subjects: | NURSING > Paediatric Nursing |
| Depositing User: | Ramakrishnan J |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Jul 2017 06:52 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2017 14:44 |
| URI: | http://repository-tnmgrmu.ac.in/id/eprint/2079 |
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