A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Self-Instructional Module on Knowledge regarding Covid-19 among Adolescents at selected Colleges, Salem

Background: Nurses play a vital role in healthcare system and health team. All health care professionals especially nurses are on the front-line battling against this pandemic and providing services to patient which is helpful to control and prevent Covid-19 pandemic1. Objectives: 1) To assess the pre test and post test level of knowledge on Covid-19 among adolescents. 2) To compare the pre test and post test knowledge on Covid-19 among adolescents. 3) To evaluate the effectiveness of self -instructional module on Covid-19 among adolescents. 4) To associate the knowledge regarding covid-19 among adolescence with their selected demographic variables. Methods: A descriptive study was done to assess the knowledge regarding Covid-19 among First year B.Sc. Nursing students at selected College of Nursing, Salem. Pre-experimental research design was usedfor this study. 58 students were selected through non-probability convenience sampling technique. Structured questionnaire was used to collect the data. The collected data were tabulated and analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results: In pre-test 29(50%) of students had adequate knowledge 29(50%) students have moderately adequate knowledge and none of them have inadequate knowledge. Where as in post-test 53(91%) has adequate knowledge and 5(9%) have moderately adequate knowledge and none of them have inadequate knowledge. Conclusion: There was a significant association between knowledge score regarding Covid-19 with their selected demographic variables such as gender. Hence research hypothesis H1 is accepted for their demographic variables at p≤0.05 level. This study concluded that most of the students had adequate knowledge.