Juliet, S (2012) Effectiveness of Token Economy on modifying Self Care activities among Mentally Challenged Children attending in selected Rehabilitation Centers at Madurai. Masters thesis, Matha College of Nursing, Manamadruai.
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Abstract
A study to determine the effectiveness of token economy on modifying self care activities among mentally challenged children attending to selected rehabilitation centers in Madurai. OBJECTIVES: 1. To assess the level of self care activities before and after giving token economy among mentally challenged children. 2. To find out the effectiveness of token economy on modifying self care activities among mentally challenged children. 3. To find out the association between the self care activities among mentally challenged children and their selected demographic variables such as Age, Sex, Religion, Type of the family, No of children in the family, Parental educational qualification, Occupation of the parents, and Income. HYPOTHESES: The mean post test score after intervention was significantly higher than the mean pretest score of self care activity among mentally challenged children. There was a significant association between the level of self care activities and their selected demographic variables such as Age, Sex, Religion, Type of the family, No of children in the family, Parental educational qualification, Occupation of the parents, and Income. ASSUMPTION: Level of self care activities among the mentally challenged children was significantly lower than the normal children. MAJOR FINDINGS OF THE STUDY: ❖ The majority of the age group of the subjects 24 [40.2%] was between 10- 12 years. ❖ Regarding sex of the groups 35 [58.3%] majority were males. ❖ Regarding the type of family majority of the subjects 36 [60%] was joint family. ❖ Regarding no of the child in the family majority of the subjects 33 [55] were having two children. ❖ With regard to religion majority of the subjects 30 [50%] were Hindu. ❖ Regarding the educational status of the subjects of the mother 23 [38.3%] majority has a higher secondary education. ❖ In respect of occupation of the subjects of the mothers, 44 [73.3%] majority were private employee. ❖ Regarding the educational status of the subjects of the father 36 [60%] majority has secondary education. ❖ In respect of occupation of the subjects of the fathers, 26 [43.3%] majority were private employee. ❖ With regard to the monthly income of the family 32 [53.3%] majority were getting Rs/- 6001-9000. ❖ The pre test among the subjects 18 (30%) were having poor self care activities, 42 (70%) were having average self care activities. In post test among the subjects 1 (1.7%) were having poor self care activities, 44 (78.3%) were having average self care activities, 15 (25%) were having good self care activities. ❖ The mean score on a level of self care activities was 2.094 in post test which is significantly lower than, 2.638 in pre test and computed value of ‘t’ is -24.714 is more than the table value [2.002] which is statistically significant at 0.05 levels. This data shows that token economy was effective in modifying self care activities. ❖ The hypothesis states that there is a significant association between level self care activities and demographic variables. The same result was statistically proved. The table - 4 depicts that the demographic variables such as Parental educational qualification, Occupation of the parents and Income have significant association at 0.05 levels and the demographic variable such as age, Sex, Religion, No of children in the family and type of family have no significant association with the level of self care activities. RECOMMENDATION: Based on the findings of the study the following recommendations are made: ❖ A similar study can be done with a large sample size. ❖ A study could be done to assess the effectiveness of token economy in normal children to do self care activities. ❖ A study can be done in longitudinal studies and assess more self care activities among mentally challenged children. ❖ A comparative study can be done between normal and mentally challenged children to assess the effectiveness of tokeneconomy on self care activities. ❖ The study can be done to assess the other activities like toilet training, dressing, and eating. CONCLUSION: As a part of curriculum, the researcher has taken the effectiveness of tokeneconomy on modifying self care activities as dissertation. The researcher had heart touching experience when data was collected from the samples. The following conclusion are made based on the above finding that most of the subjects were having moderate level of self care activities, token economy was an effective method of modifying self care activities. This study can encourage the teachers to use token economy in the school activities of the students, both the normal and the mentally challenged children and also can apply this in the home to encourage the children also.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Tokeneconomy, Modifying Self Care Activities, Mentally Challenged Children, Rehabilitation Centers, Madurai. |
| Subjects: | NURSING > Paediatric Nursing |
| Depositing User: | Ramakrishnan J |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Oct 2017 10:26 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Aug 2020 02:04 |
| URI: | http://repository-tnmgrmu.ac.in/id/eprint/3613 |
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