Assess the effectiveness of planned health teaching on knowledge regarding temper tantrums among mothers of toddlers in the selected hospital Vadodara

Abstract

Background: Temper tantrums are the common behaviour problem in pre-school children who may express their anger by lying on the floor, kicking, screaming and occasionally holding their breath. Tantrum is natural, especially in children who are not yet able to use words to express feelings through words. Tantrums typically peak between ages 2 to 3 and start to decline by Twenty-three to 83 percent of all 2–4-year-olds have temper tantrums at least occasionally (2,3,7,8,15 times), last 30 seconds to 2 minutes, most intense at the start.
Objectives: 1.To assess the knowledge of mothers on managing common temper problem among toddlers.
2.To find association between knowledge and selected demographic variable common temper problem among mothers of toddlers.
3.To Find out the effectiveness of planned health teaching on knowledge regarding temper tantrums among mothers of toddlers.
Methods: The Parul Sevashram Hospital in Vadodara served as the study's location. A practical simple random sampling procedure was used to select 60 primi mothers in total. Multiple choice questions and a checklist were included in the questionnaire used to gather the data. Age, religion, degree of education, place of residence, and other socio-demographic characteristics were taken into account when formulating the questions. For this examination, a quantitative descriptive research design was adopted.
Result: In this study, The mean improvement in knowledge score is 10.17 with SD 6.26. The structured teaching programme is an effective intervention to improve the knowledge of mothers on managing common behavioural problems among toddlers. comparison of mean score of pretest and post test of knowledge scores of mothers, pre-test mean score was 11.46 and post-test score mean was 21.63 and t calculated is greater than t table value therefore H1 hypothesis is accepted.
Conclusion: Despite the fact that more than half of mothers are well-informed. Mothers gain there knowledge how to prevention of temper tantrum.