A study to assess the effectiveness of computer assisted planned teaching on knowledge regarding selected water borne diseases and its preventive measures among mothers of under five children in selected urban area at Choolai in Chennai

Computer assisted education services are recently developing trend in giving health education, it is really an attractive , useful and attention seeking method in raising standard of community health, especially for the future generations. Mothers are considered as a best setting for the positive health and prevention of diseases in children, awakening health consciousness in which the child grows and develops. A quasi experimental study was conducted to “assess the effectiveness of Computer assisted planned teaching programme on knowledge regarding water borne diseases and its preventive measures among mother’s of under five children in selected urban area at Choolai in Chennai” Totally 100 mothers those who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria were selected by simple random sampling technique. A pre assessment was done by using structured questionnaire, followed by Computer assisted planned teaching programme is given. After 7 days post assessment was taken. The result of the post-test score revealed that the computer assisted planned teaching programme had its impact on improving the level of knowledge among mothers. The overall mean score of pre-test was 7.38 with the Standard Deviation 2.15, whereas in post-test the overall mean score was 11.84 with the Standard deviation 1.57. The t-test value was 23.16 which is statistically significant at P=0.001.After Computer Assisted Planned Teaching mothers are gained 31.9% of the knowledge than pretest. This is net benefit of Computer assisted planned teaching programme