A STUDY TO EVALUATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PLANNED TEACHING PROGRAMME ON KNOWLEDGE REGARDING SELF ADMINISTRATION OF INSULIN AMONG ALL DIABETES MELLITUS CLIENTS IN SELECTED COMMUNITY AREA AT BANGALORE

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Diabetes has emerged as a major health care problem everywhere. Currently the number of cases of diabetes worldwide is estimated to be around 150 million. This number is predicted to double by 2025.According to the National Diabetes Information Clearing House. In 2007, the five countries with the largest number of people with Diabetes Mellitus in India (40.9 Million), China (39.8 Million), the United States (19.2 Million), Russia (9.6 Million) and Germany (7.4 Million). By 2025, largest increases in diabetes prevalence take place in developing countries. The finding showed that 11(18.33%) of the respondent have adequate knowledge and 49(81.67%) have moderate knowledge self-administration if insulin among diabetes mellitus clients. The overall mean score was 19.7 with percentage of 65.67%; the data analysis shows that diabetes mellitus clients had high knowledge regarding self-administration of insulin. The analysis shows that pre-test mean percentage knowledge score is 43% (SD 5.3), post-test mean percentage knowledge score is 65.67% (SD 3.8). The calculated‘t’ (14.23) value was greater than table value (2.6). It indicates that there was significant in improving the knowledge regarding self-administration of insulin among all diabetes mellitus clients. Chi-square test was used to find out the association between knowledge and selected demographic variables. The result showed that there was a significant relationship between selected demographic variable such as type of family calculated x2 value is 4.4, education calculated ⃰ x2 value is 9.9, and the occupation calculated ⃰ x2 value is 10⃰. H3 is accepted at P<0.05 level.

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