A Study to Evaluate Effectiveness of Awareness Program on Knowledge regarding Covid -19 among Mother of Under Five Children Admitted in Pediatric Ward in Selected Hospital Ujjain (MP)

Abstract

Introduction : Corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a severe acute respiratory infection caused by the novel corona virus severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) (WHO 2020a), which started initially as a bunch of proceeding from Wuhan, China (Zhu et al. 2020), has now dispersed to 135 countrieswith 142,539 number of addicted cases and 5393 deaths (WHO 2020b).The WHO declared COVID-19 as a global pandemic on March 11, 2020 (WHO 2020c). The illness mainly dispersed via close interaction of respiratory droplets create by infected individualist (Center for Disease Control and Prevention 2020a). At the world level, sufficient testing capacity for COVID-19 is not available as it should be and therefore preventing individuals from accessing care. Methodology : The present study an interventional study to assess the effectiveness of awareness program on knowledge regarding covid-19 among mother of under five children admitted in pediatric ward in S.S. Hospital & Research Centre Ujjain M.P. A quantitative with evaluative approach was adopted for this study.The study was conducted in the selected Hospital of Ujjain. This area is located at 90 km far from College. The setting was chosen on the basis of feasibility, availability of adequate sample and the familiarity of the investigator with the setting.he present study was conducted among 50 mother of under five children admitted in pediatric ward at selected Hospital of Ujjain.data analysis done by descriptive and inferential statistics. Results : Chi-square test used to find out the association between pre-test knowledge score with selected sociodemographic variables of Mother of under-five children. Conclusions : The information was given with the aid of Awareness program which included various aspects such as introduction, causes, types, complication and management, which will help the mother of under five children to improve their knowledge.