A quasi-experimental study to assess the effectiveness of planned teaching regarding BRAT diet on knowledge among the mothers from selected hospitals of Pune city.

Abstract

Introduction: Diarrhea which is one of the major common diseases among children under 1-6 years of age. The child with diarrhea mainly requires BRAT diet for the treatment as an alternative method or home remedy. Aim of the study: To assess the effectiveness of planned teaching regarding BRAT diet on knowledge among the mothers from selected hospitals of Pune city. Material and method: The research approach adopted for the study was quantitative research approach and research design was quasi-experimental research design with pre-test post-test control group design. 70 mothers were selected by method of Non-probability - Purposive sampling technique, 35 mothers were kept in experimental group and 35 mothers were in control group. Experimental group received planned teaching regarding BRAT diet. Results: The finding of the study found that effectiveness on level of knowledge regarding BRAT diet among mothers in experimental and control group was analyzed by paired and unpaired t-test. The value of t-test is 10.0214 and the p-value is 0.0001. So, the result is significant at 0.05 level. Hence, planned teaching regarding BRAT diet is effective increasing the knowledge level. There were no association found in between pre intervention with selected demographic variables in experimental group. In control group there were no association between pre-test except in occupation. Conclusion: From the findings of the study, the researcher concludes that the planned teaching regarding BRAT diet was effective among the mothers as mothers practiced the diet as a home remedies rather than using pharmaceutical medication which is easily available.