Original Research Article
Year: 2020 | Month: October | Volume: 10 | Issue: 10 | Pages: 189-194
Impact of Alertness Programme on Knowledge Regarding Nipah Virus Infection among Health Care Providers Residing at Vijayapur
Suchitra A Rati1, Jayashree Pujari2, Santhosh Indi2, Gururaj Guggari3
1Vice Principal/ HOD, 2Associate Professor, 3Assistant Professor,
Dept of Community Health Nursing. BLDEA’S Shri B M Patil Institute of Nursing Sciences-Vijayapur-586103.
Corresponding Author: Suchitra A Rati
ABSTRACT
Context: In May 2018, 17 deaths were reported due to outbreak of Nipah infection, in that the first case was occurred in Calicut district of north Kerala along with spreading adjacent district through human to human transmission. As the Nipah virus is highly infectious and spreads hastily through close contact, prevention of such cases at community level will become biggest challenge for the health team to provide better services. The best primary strategies for prevention and control of Nipah infection will be alertness programme.
Aims: To alert regarding prevention and control of Nipah Virus infection among health care providers.
Settings and Design: A pre experimental –one group pre and post test design conducted at nursing institution Vijayapur
Methods and Material: A convenient sampling technique, 100 health care providers and administered structured questionnaires for the data collection..
Statistical analysis: Frequency percentage. Mean and standard deviation.
Results: The result revealed that majority were age group of 19-24 and had education status of GNM. The mean and standard deviation on pretest was 4.74 and 7.66 , after alertness programme it was 8.56 and 7.24 respectively.
Conclusions: Implementation of various educational interventional programmes on emerging and remerging diseases for health care providers are benefited to offer better services.
Key words: Nipah, Health care provider and Alertness programme