A Study to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme (STP) on Knowledge Regarding Use of Braden Scale for Predicting Pressure Sore Risk Among Student Nurses in KLEs Institute of Nursing Sciences, Hubballi

Background: Skin is the largest organ covering the entire outside of the body. Skin care is a fundamental component of basic patient care and reflects on the overall quality of care a patient receives in the hospital. Pressure ulcers have been described as one of the physically debilitating complications in the 20th century and it will increase the costs of health care. Objectives: (1) To assess the knowledge regarding use of Braden Scale for predicting pressure sore risk among student nurses. (2) To evaluate the effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on knowledge regarding use of Braden Scale for predicting pressure sore risk among student nurses in terms of gain in knowledge scores. (3) To find out an association between pre-test knowledge scores regarding use of Braden Scale for predicting pressure sore risk among student nurses and their selected sociodemographic variables. Methods: A pre experimental one group pre-test post-test design was used. The sample size of 50 were selected by using Probability; simple random sampling technique. Data was collected from samples in KLEs Institute of Nursing Sciences, Hubballi by means of structured knowledge questionnaire. The reliability of the tool was r =0.73 and analysis was done using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results: The overall pre-test knowledge scores of student nurses, majority of the subjects 38(78%) had average knowledge, 4(8%) had good knowledge, and 8(16%) had poor knowledge. Whereas, in post-test, maximum subjects 47 (94%) had good knowledge, 3(6%) had average knowledge scores and none of them had poor knowledge regarding use of Braden scale in predicting pressure sore risk. There was significant gain in knowledge score who were exposed to structured teaching programme i.e 34.12%. The paired ‘t’ test value (t cal=26.08* ) was greater than the tabulated value (ttab= 2.009) for knowledge, hence proved that stated hypothesis i.e. mean post-test knowledge scores of Nursing students who have been exposed to structured teaching Programme will be significantly higher than the mean pre-test knowledge scores at 0.05 level of significance. Conclusion: The study concluded that structured teaching programme was more effective for student nurses to increase the knowledge regarding use of Braden scale in predicting pressure ulcer risk.