''Assessment of Educational Intervention On Knowledge Regarding World Health Organization Covid-19 Protocols During Delivery AmongStaff Nurses Working In Labour Room of Selected Hospitals

ABSTRACT

Prevention is better than cure This covid-19 pandemic has made many changes in everyone's life, in this pandemic WHO focuses on the safety of healthcare workers and Safety ofpatients, WHO set COVID-19 protocols. Aim(s) Assessment of educational intervention on knowledge regarding World Health Organization covid-19 protocols during delivery among staff nurses. Methodology: The present study is evaluative study with methodological research design. A total of 60 samples were selected for the study by using the non -probability purposive sampling technique based on the selection criteria. The reliability was done by using the test re-test method for structured questionnaire. Data were analysed by using descriptive and inferential statistics. Result(s) In pre-test, 43.3% of the staff nurses had average knowledge (Score 4 to 6), 55% of them had good knowledge (Score 7 to 9) and 1.7% of them had excellent knowledge (Score 10) regarding WHO covid 19 protocols.In post-test, 18.3% of them had good knowledge (Score 7 to 9) and 81.7% of them had excellent knowledge (Score 10) regarding WHO covid 19 protocols. This indicates that the knowledge among the staff nurses regarding WHO covid 19 protocols had improved remarkably after the health teaching. Researcher had applied paired t-test for the effect of health teaching on knowledge regarding WHO covid 19 protocols. Average knowledge scorein pre-test was 6.8;which increased to 9.8 in post-test. T-value for this test was 14.08 with 59degrees of freedom. Corresponding p-value was small (less than 0.05), the null hypothesis is rejected. It is evident that the knowledge among the staff nurses regarding WHO covid 19protocols had improved significantly after health teaching. Conclusion(s) there is a significant gap in the knowledge score WHO COVID-19 Protocol among labour room nurses, and hence there is need for a WHO COVID-19 Protocol for the improvement of knowledge.Copyright © 2022 Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications. All rights reserved.