Effectiveness of STP on Knowledge and Anxiety Regarding First Time Administering Intramuscular Injection Among DGNM and ANM Students At Selected College, Puducherry

Background : Knowledge and attitude of nurses and nursing students may vary regarding IM injection techniques, the most common issues are selection of injection site, cleansing skin before injection, needle size used and pinching or spreading the skin before injection. Aim : To evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge and anxiety regarding first time administering IM injection among 30 1 st year Nursing students . Method : A pre experimental design , Convenient sampling technique was used to select the sample.to asses knowledge Self structured questions, for anxiety Zung self-rated scale was used Result : The present study showed that in pre& post improvement knowledge with SD as follows 15.90+3.661,23.20+3.736 those are highly significant value is 0.05 and in anxiety pre test 17.30+4.743 and post test value is 31.87+5.865 those highly significant with p value of 0.05administration of IM injection. Conclusion: To enhance the knowledge and interest of student by using various teaching method.


Introduction
Intramuscular injection is a method of administering medications deeply into the muscle tissue so that they can be absorbed quickly into the body.Intramuscular injection is used to administer vaccines and drugs.According to WHO, 16 billion injections are administered every year around the world and it reduction in the number of risks.Knowledge and attitudes of nurses and nursing students may vary regarding IM injection techniques, the most common issues are selection of injection site, cleansing skin before injection, needle size used and pinching or spreading the skin before injection.Nurses in clinical practice are slow to embrace it, relying on the traditionally taught and much used dorso-gluteal injection site.

Statement of problem:
A study to evaluate the effectiveness of Structured teaching Programme on knowledge and anxiety regarding first time administering IM Injection among DGNM and ANM students at selected college, Puducherry.

Objectives:
• To assess the Pretest level of knowledge and anxiety regarding first time administering IM injection among DGNM and ANM students.• To evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching Programme on knowledge and anxiety among DGNM and ANM students.Hypothesis: H1: There is an association between knowledge and anxiety level regarding administering the first time IM Injection among DGNM and ANM students with their selected demographic variables.Delimitation: • The study was delimited to DGNM and ANM students.The study was explained and obtained informed consent from each participant.The participants were selected by convenient sampling technique and establish rapport with them.Data collection was done from 18.10.2023to 26.10.2023,30 samples were selected, from College of Nursing East coast institute of medical science were selected based on inclusion criteria

Conclusion:
The study the present study showed that there is improvement the knowledge and reduced anxiety during administration of IM injection among 1 st students.itcan be considered as a new approach for promoting the promoting skills and improve confident among the Nursing students at selected college.

RECOMMENDATION:
Based on findings of the present study, the following recommendation have been made, • More studies can be conducted on improving the level of knowledge using different teaching methods.
• Studies can be done to assess the knowledge of Nursing students on improving the level of knowledge regarding and improve tha confident • The same study can be conducted in different settings.
• The study can be replicated with larger samples for better .

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The study was delimited to the sample size of 30METHODOLOGY RESEARCH APPROACHA Pre experimental research design & Convenient sampling technique was used with 30 samples in Nursing College, Puducherry.Demographic variables such as name of the student, age, sex, religion, type of family, educational status of mother, mothers occupation, educational status of father, fathers occupation, family income.

SECTION B-Self Structured Knowledge Questionnaire Level of Knowledge Percentage Score
The standardized tool modified Zung self-related anxiety scale was used.

. Kanniammal, P. Malarvizhi did a study 2022 founded
that There was a significant improvement in post test knowledge score of nursing students regarding IM injections (M=10.89SD=4.508) compared to the pre-test scores (M=14.42SD=3.720) with the 't' value of p < 0.01

Table 3 : Frequency and Percentage wise distribution of level of knowledge regarding structured teaching Programme on anxiety regarding first time administering IM injection among DGNM and ANM students on both pre test and post test
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