Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology
Vol. 14 No. 4 (2020): Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology

Effectiveness of Instructive Bookleton Knowledge About Organ Donation among GNM Nurses Working at Selected PHCs of Pune

Mangesh Jabade1 , Sheela Upendra2 (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
29 Oct 2020

Abstract

Background: At the point when an individual permits their very own organ to be evacuated and relocatedto someone else, legitimately, either by assent while the benefactor is alive or dead intends to organ gift.To comprehend Organ Donation, it is first basic to comprehend organ Transplantation. An exchange is aclinical technique where one individual’s broken organ or tissue is supplanted by that of a solid individual;in this way re-establish its capacity. The organ gift and transplantation framework endeavour to respect theendowment of gave organs by completely utilizing those organs to spare or improve the greatness of thelives of relocate beneficiaries.Objectives: 1. Toassess the knowledge about organ donation among GNM nurses working at selectedPHCs of Pune, 2. To evaluate the effectiveness of instructive booklet on knowledge about organ donation,amongstGNM nurses working at certain PHCs of Pune.Methodology: Study is quantitative-one group pre-test post-test design. Collected information by selfstructured questionnaire by purposive sampling method. The questionnaire had two sections, to gatherinformation regarding demographic variables, knowledge on organ donation.Result: Assessed the knowledge regarding organ donation and result were found as: 56.4% of the GNMnurses had poor knowledge and 43.6% of them had average knowledge. In posttest, 14.5% of the GNM nurseshad poor knowledge, 25.5% of them middlinginformation and 60% of them had superiorunderstandingonthe subject of organ endowment.Conclusion: Study revealed that instructive booklet is effective to increase the knowledge on organ donationamong GNM nurses.

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