A study to evaluate the effectiveness of nursing guidelines on epilepsy management among patients in selected hospital, Salem
Guna Priya G and Shenbagavalli E
Objectives: To evaluate the effectiveness of nursing guidelines on epilepsy management for patients.
Methods: A quantitative study with quasi-experimental one group pre-test post test research design was applied. A non probability purposive sample of 30 patients was applied.
Tools: Three tools were used: (1) Structured interview questionnaire withdemographic variables of patients,knowledge assessment questionnaire. (2) Epilepsy risk awareness scale, (3) patients reported practices questionnaire.
Results:The mean pre-test score was 8 with standard deviation 4.23 and mean post-test score was 20.67 with standard deviation 3.06. The paired “t” value of pre-test and post-test was 18.39 which was found to be statistically significant at p<0.05 level of significance. This indicated that structured teaching programme was effective to improving the level of knowledge on epilepsy management among patients.
Conclusion: The implementation of evidenced based guidelines had positive effects on knowledge and awareness of the studied patients regarding epilepsy management. This proves, nursing guidelines was effective in epilepsy management among patients. Recommendations: There is a need to activate implementation ofepileptic guidelines manual in the hospitals.
Guna Priya G, Shenbagavalli E. A study to evaluate the effectiveness of nursing guidelines on epilepsy management among patients in selected hospital, Salem. Int J Adv Res Nurs 2024;7(2):128-132. DOI: 10.33545/nursing.2024.v7.i2.B.411