EFFECTIVENESS OF CHILD-TO-CHILD TEACHING APPROACH ON KNOWLEDGE REGARDING WORM INFESTATION AND ITS PREVENTION AMONG CHILDREN
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.47750/pnr.2022.13.S01.87Keywords:
Effectiveness, Child-to-Child Approach, Worm infestation, Primary school children.Abstract
Intestinal worm infections brought on by soil are the most prevalent infections worldwide and they affect the most oppressed and common societies. They are transmitted by the gametes in human faeces, which further contaminate the soil in unsanitary locations. More than 1.5 billion people, or 24% of the world's population, have intestinal worm illnesses that are spread through soil. Over 267 million pre-schoolers and over 568 million school-age children who live in areas where these leeches are widely distributed need to be dealt with and prevented. Objectives: The study's objectives were to assess the knowledge of children on worm infestation, evaluate the effectiveness of the child-to-child teaching approach on worm infestation among children and determine the association between the children’s knowledge and selected socio-demographic variables. Methods: The researcher adopted a pre-test post-test design to check the effectiveness of the child-to-child teaching approach on knowledge regarding worm infestation and its prevention among children of the government primary school of Goraj, the sample for the study and sample size was 100. 100 sample was selected by the nonprobability purposive sampling technique. The pre-test was conducted which is followed by the administration of worm infestation knowledge and prevention questions. Collected data were evaluated by using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results: In this study, the majority shows that 4% of the children had poor knowledge, 15% of children had Average knowledge and 81% of children had good knowledge regarding worm infestation. Conclusion: despite the fact, that 81% of the children have good knowledge and 15% of the children have average knowledge and 4% of the children have poor knowledge regarding worm infestation. Demographic variables influence on the knowledge regarding worm infestation among the selected primary school of Waghodia Taluka.
