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ISSN 1004-9037
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Edited by: Editorial Board of Journal of Data Acquisition and Processing
P.O. Box 2704, Beijing 100190, P.R. China
Sponsored by: Institute of Computing Technology, CAS & China Computer Federation
Undertaken by: Institute of Computing Technology, CAS
Published by: SCIENCE PRESS, BEIJING, CHINA
Distributed by:
China: All Local Post Offices
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05 July-September 2023, Volume 38 Issue 4
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Abstract
Patients with Kawasaki disease (KD) tend to be younger than five years old. Another name for KD is Kawasaki syndrome. The sickness was initially described by Tomisaku Kawasaki in Japan in 1967, & Hawaii reported first occurrences outside of Japan occurred in 1976. A high body temperature, rashes, swelling of the hands and feet, redness and swelling of the eye whites, enlargement of the lymph nodes in the neck, as well as irritation and inflammation of the mouth, lips, & throat are a few of the clinical symptoms.1
“A study to assess effectiveness of pamphlet on information regarding Kawasaki disease among mothers of infant in selected urban areas of Pune city.’’
The objectives of the study:
To evaluate the knowledge level of mothers regarding Kawasaki disease before and after the intervention.
To determine the effectiveness of the pamphlet in improving mothers' knowledge about Kawasaki disease.
Research methodology: In this study we used quantitative research approach. An experimental pre-test/post-test method was selected as the investigation's study methodology. The non-probability convinient sampling technique was used. The sample consist of 100 among mothers of infant in selected urban areas of Pune city who had fulfilled the inclusion criteria of the study in order to assess the knowledge regarding care of patients with stroke. The reliability of tool was done on 10 participants the value was 0.83 and tool found reliable.
Result: The study mentioned above reveals that the average pre-test result was 7.71, along with 1.91 SD as compared with post-test mean score 11.94 along with 1.03 SD. DF was 99, t value was 18.79 and p value was 0.00001 which shows significant effectiveness of pamphlet on information regarding Kawasaki disease.
Conclusion: It was concluded that Health care practitioners should place more of an emphasis on health education to raise community knowledge of Kawasaki Disease.
Keyword
Assess, Effectiveness of the pamphlet, Kawasaki disease, Mothers of infants
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