A Study to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Self-Instructional Module on Knowledge Regarding Epilepsy among B.Ed. Students in Selected Colleges at Bijapur

A Study to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Self-Instructional Module on Knowledge Regarding Epilepsy among B.Ed. Students in Selected Colleges at Bijapur - Background: Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological diseases in the world. False knowledge and attitudes related to epilepsy both complicate the social lives of patients and adversely affect their academic development. The aim of this study was to investigate the Effectiveness of Self-Instructional Module on Knowledge Regarding Epilepsy among B.Ed. Students in Selected Colleges at Bijapur. Objectives: (1) To assess the knowledge of B.Ed. students regarding epilepsy before administration of self-instructional module. (2) To find the effectiveness of self-instructional module on epilepsy. (3) To find the association between the knowledge scores of B.Ed. students with selected socio demographic variables. Methodology: The research design used for this study is quasi experimental (one group pre-test) design. The independent variable is the self-instructional module and the dependent variable is knowledge of the B.Ed. students regarding epilepsy. Results: The results have revealed that in the pretest, majority of subjects 23(38.3%) had very poor knowledge, 33(55%) had poor knowledge, and 3(5%) had average knowledge and 1(1.66%) had good knowledge. It reveals that the mean percentage of knowledge scored was 26.66%. Reveals that the percentage of knowledge scores in the introduction of epilepsy was 42.8%, types of epilepsy was 25%, incidence of epilepsy was 20%, Causes of epilepsy 25%, phases of epilepsy 0%, Signs and symptoms of epilepsy was 0%, treatment of epilepsy 33.3%, complication of epilepsy 0%%, prevention of epilepsy was 33.33%. Interpretation and conclusion: The findings of this study reveal that the Self-instructional module will increase the knowledge of the B.Ed. students on epilepsy and its prevention. Findings of the study shows that knowledge of the B.Ed. students percentage of introduction of epilepsy was 71.42%, types of epilepsy was 75%, incidence of epilepsy was 60%, Causes of epilepsy 75%, phases of epilepsy 100%, Signs and symptoms of epilepsy was 50%, treatment of epilepsy 100%, complication of epilepsy 100%, prevention of epilepsy was 100%. Keywords: Effectiveness, SIM, Knowledge, Epilepsy, B.Ed. students.