Open AccessA Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on Knowledge regarding Occupational Health Hazards among Factory Workers in Selected Factory of Indore, M. P., India
Author(s) -
Sonam Meshram,
Sheikh Javed
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of healthcare education and medical informatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2455-9199
DOI - 10.24321/2455.9199.202001
Subject(s) - factory (object oriented programming) , test (biology) , medicine , occupational safety and health , environmental health , medical education , family medicine , pathology , computer science , paleontology , biology , programming language
Background: Factory workers are vulnerable to various diseases and accidents are common in factories. They do not have much knowledge on the various occupational health hazards and the way to preventing it. Methodology:Structured teaching programme followed by administration of structured knowledge questionnaire was used as an appropriate and effective method to evaluate the knowledge and attitude of factory workers regarding occupational health hazards. Ethical approval and patient consent was taken. The tool was found to be statistically reliable for the main study. Result:A significant improvement was seen in post-test average knowledge score of the workers after administration of structured teaching programme. Conclusion: The pre-test findings showed that knowledge of factory workers regarding occupational health hazards was inadequate. The structured teaching programme proved to be a very effective method of transforming information.