Effectiveness of Nurse-Led Education Programme on Knowledge Regarding Management of Seizure among Mothers of under Five Children in a Selected Tertiary Care Hospital, Bhubaneswar, Odisha

Abstract

Seizures are a major concern for parents who are not fully aware of how to manage their babies with seizures. A mother is a child's most important protector. Today he is primarily responsible for the good health of children. A child is mankind's most valuable control, the most beloved, excellent in its purity and must be nurtured tenderly. Nurse-led educational programs should aim directly at educating children's families about managing maternal seizure conditions and acquiring knowledge out managing seizure disorders. A quantitative pre-experimental research approach was mothers of fewer than five children out of a sample of 100 diagnosed with seizures in this study.  Baseline data were collected using a sociodemographic pro-forma, self-structured interview design for the management of seizures in mothers with children under five years of age. Data were analyzed descriptively and expressed as frequency and percentage distributions of sociodemographic characteristics and inferential statistics. The paired t-test and chi-square test are the main results of a study on the knowledge base of the mother's pre-test and post-test of her children under 5 years of age on managing seizures with nurse-initiated training and the effect target.