The purpose of the study was to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding dog bite among elementary school children at Tirupati Rural Mandal, Chittoor (Dist.), A.P. A pre experimental study approach and one group pretest and post test design was adopted for the present study. A total of 50 subjects were selected by non probability convenience sampling method. A structured questionnaire and teaching programme was developed and administered to collect the data. The results revealed that, in pretest assessment among elementary school children 90% had inadequate knowledge, 6% had moderate knowledge, 4% had adequate knowledge on dog bite. In post test assessment 6% had inadequate knowledge, 20% had moderate knowledge, 74% had adequate knowledge on dog bite. In over all present mean was 10.14, standard deviation was 4.025 and post test mean was 24.98, standard deviation was 3.787 with t value of 20.574 which is significant at 0.01 level indicates structured teaching programme was effective to increase the knowledge regarding dog bite.
Key words: Dog Bite. Rabies.
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