A quantitative research study was aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching program on knowledge regarding prevention of COVID-19 among I year BSc. Nursing students. The objectives of the study were to assess the knowledge regarding prevention of COVID-19 among I year BSc. Nursing students, to evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching program on knowledge regarding prevention of COVID-19 among I year BSc. Nursing students, to find out the association between the pretest knowledge regarding prevention of COVID-19 among I year BSc. Nursing students with selected socio demographic variables. The study was undertaken with 50 samples. Convenience Sampling was used. The research design was one group pre-test post-test design. Structured knowledge questionnaire was used for collecting the data. Pre-test was administered followed by structured teaching program and post-test conducted. The data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The study findings show that in the pre-test 32% of students are having poor knowledge and 68%are having average level of knowledge regarding prevention of COVID -19. After the structure teaching program, in the post-test 100% of students having good level of knowledge regarding prevention of COVID-19. The calculated ‘t’ value 2.009is higher than table value 1.677 at 0.05 level of significance. So, the hypothesis H1 was accepted. Hence it can be concluded that there is statistically significant difference in the knowledge level of I year student nurses regarding prevention of COVID-19. It is inferred that structured teaching program was effective It was concluded that there was a significant improvement in post-test scores when compare to the pre-test scores. There was no significant association found between the pre-test knowledge scores with the selected socio demographic variables.
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