Abstract:

Dementia is a syndrome due to disease of the brain, usually of chronic or a progressive, debilitating disease that often results in weight loss, malnutrition, and dehydration. Most patients with dementia receive care from family members, often untrained for this challenging role. Caregivers may not access publicly available care giving information and caregiver education programs are not widely implemented clinically. Family members often receive inadequate decision-making education. The aim of the study is to assess the effectiveness of IEC Package on level of knowledge regarding management of dementia among the caregiver of elderly in selected urban community, Amethi. The data was collected from 150 experimental and 150 control groups, caregivers of elderly by structured Questionnaire schedule. Stratified Random Sampling technique was used to select the samples.

The findings revealed that the improvement in mean score of overall level of knowledge of caregivers of elderly between pre-test and post-test, experimental was 8.57, paired ‘t’ test experimental was 30.3, which was highly significant at P<0.01 and the improvement in mean score of overall level of knowledge of caregivers of elderly between pre-test and post-test, control group was 1, paired ‘t’ test, control group was 1.97, which was not significant at P<0.01.

This showed that IEC package was effective and hence research hypothesis was accepted. Where as in control group mean score was 1, paired ‘t’ test was, 1.98 which was not significant at P<0.01, hence research hypothesis was rejected and null hypothesis was accepted. The mean difference between experimental group and control group was 7.95, paired ‘t’ test was 17.94, which was highly significant at P<0.01. This showed that IEC package was effective and hence research hypothesis was accepted.

Keywords: IEC Package, Knowledge, Caregiver of Elderly, Management of Dementia.

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