A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on Knowledge Regarding Body Mechanics in Reducing Low Back Pain Among Staff Nurse at Selected Department of Sharda Hospital of Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh

A major medical condition and one of the main contributors to disability, low back pain (LBP) affects many people. Nursing is a profession with a greater risk for the development of low back pain. Body Mechanics means use of the muscles of the body and the skeletal system in such a way as to avoid injury or strain when assisting in the movement, positioning and transfer of a client. Using bodily mechanics low back pain can be reduced. A research study entitled “A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme On Knowledge Regarding Body Mechanics in Reducing Low Back Pain Among Staff Nurse at Selected Department Of Sharda Hospital Of Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh” was conducted by Ms. Kalpana Bhandari in the Partial fulfillment of requirement for the award of Master of Science in Nursing at Sharda university, Greater Noida UP. Objectives: Objectives of the study were to assess the level of knowledge regarding Body mechanics among staff nurse, to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding body mechanics in reducing low back pain among staff nurses at selected department of Sharda Hospital and to find the association between the pretest and posttest knowledge score of staff nurses with selected demographic variables. Materials and methods: A Pre-experimental research design was used in this study, Purposive Sampling technique was adopted for the selection of sample. The target population for the study was staff nurse working in ICU, Casualty andOrtho ward of Sharda Hospital. The sample size for the study was 40. The tool includes a knowledge questionnaire and demographic data to assess the knowledge regarding body mechanics. The tool's dependability was determined using the split-half method. Before using the tool, each participant provided their written informed consent, which was obtained from the ethics council of Sharda University. The conceptual framework of this study was founded on Ernestine Wiedenbach’s “Helping art of clinical nursing theory.The mean pre-test score was 11.7. The mean post test score was 12.89. It indicates that in the pretest those who had poor knowledge score were increased. This shows the efficiency of STP for knowledge gain. One-way ANOVA was computed to find the significant association between pretest & posttest knowledge scores with selected demographic characteristics of the staff nurses. It revealed that there was no statistically significant association (p>0.05) found between pretest & posttest knowledge scores with selected demographic characteristics of the staff nurses.Conclusions: The finding shows that the study was effective to increase the knowledge regarding body mechanics to reduce low back pain