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Joicy K.Xavier
Soumya Jacob. P
Remya T.P
Asha C.G
Neurorehabilitation is a group of therapies and techniques that maximizes a patient’s quality of life and capability after a nervous system injury. Nurses are key players in the wider rehabilitation team. Thus they are responsible to acquire expertise know ledge and skill for providing quality patient care. Hence a study was undertaken to assess the effectiveness of computer facilitated teaching programme on knowledge of staff nurses regarding neurorehabilitation in selected hospitals, Thrissur. The objectiv es of the study were to assess the knowledge of staff nurses regarding neurorehabilitation, to assess the effectiveness of computer facilitated teaching programme on knowledge of staff nurses regarding neurorehabilitation and to associate the level of know ledge of staff nurses regarding neurorehabilitation with their selected demographic variables. The design of the study was true experimental design. Sampling technique was simple random sampling with a sample size of 60 and the research tool was structured knowledge questionnaire on neurorehabilitation. Pre -test was conducted for both control group and experimental group. Computer facilitated teaching programme was implemented in experimental group. Post -test was conducted in experimental group and control group. The result of the study showed that, the mean post -test knowledge score of staff nurses regarding neurorehabilitation in experimental group was 25.77 with a SD of 2.750 and the mean post-test knowledge score in control group was 10.97 with a SD of 3 .605. The calculated ‘t’ value was 17.876 with a p value of 0.001. Thus it is summarized that the computer facilitated teaching programme regarding neurorehabilitation was effective.
Keywords: Effectiveness; Computer facilitated teaching programme; Knowledge; Neurorehabilitation