Effectiveness of Awareness Programme Related to Nikshay Mitra on Knowledge and Attitude Among Community People Between 18-45 Years of Age at Selected Area of Dehradun, Uttarakhand

Abstract

Introduction: NIKSHAY MITRA, a community - based initiative providing emotional, financial, and nutritional support to TB patients through community participation and ownership. To address this challenge, the Indian government launched NIKSHAY MITRA is a groundbreaking scheme to support tuberculosis (TB) patients, promoting adherence to treatment and improving health outcomes. Hence the study aimed to determine the effectiveness of NIKSHAY MITRA on knowledge and attitude among community people between 18-45yrs of age at selected area of Dehradun. The pre-experimental research design was chosen to conduct the study with 100 samples matched with inclusion criteria. Samples were allocated into pre-experimental group by non -probability purposive sampling technique.

Methodology: In the study Quantitative research approach is used for this study. A study to assess the effectiveness of awareness program related to NIKSHAY MITRA on knowledge and attitude among community people between 18-45yrs at selected area of Dehradun. The research design selected was one group pretest post-test design by non- probability purposive sampling techniques. The study was conducted in 100 community people at selected area of Dehradun. The standardized scale like rt scale developed by Louis Leon Thurs tone as per who criteria was as a tool for data collection. The data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics.

Results: The present study revealed that in the pre-test half of participant’s community people in pre experimental group 52% had poor knowledge where in post-test one third of the participants 22% had poor knowledge among community people in selected area. In the pretest less than half of community people had 40% positive attitude more than half of the participants 60% had negative attitude among the community people in selected area. Whereas in post-test 2/3rd of the participants 70% had positive attitude and 1/3rd of the participants 30% had negative attitude. In the pretest mean score of knowledge score of NIKSHAY MITRA was 9.64 and the post-test mean was 13.93. The mean difference was 4.29 and the calculated paired t value 11.39 was statistically found to be significant. The demographic variables was age, work area, educational status, type of family, source of information has significant association with the pre-test level of knowledge and attitude among community people at p<0.05 level.

Conclusion: This study results in knowledge and attitude of participants was increased by administration of awareness program conducted by researcher from poor knowledge and negative attitude to good knowledge and positive attitude respectively.