Pushpamala Ramaiah1 and A A Noor Siah2
1Umm al-Qura University, KSA 2King Saud bin Abdulaziz University, KSA
Posters-Accepted Abstracts: J Nurs Care
Objectives: Assess the level of pre-test and post-test knowledge among nursing students of third year BSc (N), regarding obstetrical emergencies and to find out the association between the levels of knowledge of nursing students with their selected demographic variables. Methodology: The research approach adopted for this study is evaluative research approach. The research design adopted for this study is pre-experimental design with one group pre-test and post-test design. Simple random sampling was used to select the sample of sixty for this study, where structured knowledge questionnaire was used to collect data. Questionnaire is prepared on basic concepts about obstetric emergencies, hemorrhage and shock, cord prolapse and uterine rupture. Results: The overall pre-test knowledge score regarding management of selected obstetrical emergencies among III year BSc nursing students was 36.38 with a SD of 5.52. The overall post test score regarding management of selected obstetrical emergencies among III year BSc nursing students was 87.16 with a SD of 3.81 which depict the effectiveness of video teaching. There is a significant association between pretest knowledge score on management of selected obstetrical emergencies among III year BSc nursing students with selected demographic variable such as gender, place of residence, birth order & source of information. It also exist non-significant association between pre-test knowledge score on management of selected obstetrical emergencies among III year BSc nursing students with selected demographic variable such as age in years, religion & general education.
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