“A Pre-Experimental Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on Knowledge Regarding Organ Donation Among Undergraduate Students in Selected College at Mirza, Kamrup (R), Assam”.

Background of the study: The World Health Organization denes organ donation as the donation of a person's body components for transplantation after their death. A total of 114,690 organs were transplanted worldwide in 2012. An estimated 500,000 people in India pass away each year as a result of not knowing about organ donation. [1, 2] The most frequently transplanted organs are the kidney (the most popular organ), the heart (the organ that is rejected the most), the liver, the lungs, the pancreas, and the tissues are the skin, bones, and cornea. [3]. To evaluate the effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on Aim: knowledge regarding organ donation among undergraduate students. Using a Pre-experimental one-group pre-test-post-test design. A suita Method: ble non-probability sampling strategy was employed. In Mirza, Kamrup (R), Assam, a study was conducted on fty undergraduate students in particular colleges. The Results: ndings indicate that, of the undergraduate students, majority age group 18-19 years (86%), majority gender are female (58%),majority type of family are nuclear family (70%), majority are from rural residence (90%), majority are Hindu religion (82%), majority family income are ≥25,000 (30%), majority population had previous knowledge regarding the topic (86%) and majority of them got information from mass media (50%). In the pre-test, 44 (88%) had moderately adequate knowledge and 6 (12%), had inadequate knowledge about organ donation, In the posttest, 42 (84%) had adequate knowledge and 8 (16%) had moderately adequate knowledge understanding about organ donation. 13.16 is the computed "t" value, while the mean difference score is 5.86. The study concluded that participants h Conclusion: ave moderately adequate knowledge in pre-test and majority have adequate knowledge in post-test regarding organ donation which revealed signicant improvement in the post-test and there is also an association with type of family and residence of the undergraduate students with the knowledge score.