Assess the Effectiveness of Video Teaching Programme on Self Help Techniques of Osteoarthritis among Elderly in Old Age Homes Coimbatore Tamil Nadu

Abstract

Old age neither be healed nor be prevented much can be done by health workers in helping the old age people to lead a normal life, which helps them to perform their Activities of Daily Living (ADL) without difficulty. Joint-pain to decreased mobility are the commonest problem of old people to meet their ADL. Due to highest health problem of osteoarthritis among elderly population needs strengthening of geriatric health care services in community and hospital based health care settings. The programme needs to be developed in geriatric health care with the facilities of early diagnosis, counseling, healthy diet, weight control, regular exercise and physiotherapy along with the treatment. The researcher has undertaken this study to improve their self-care activities by giving information regarding the self-help techniques of osteoarthritis thus improving the quality of living to lead a healthy life. newlineQuasi experimental time series design was adopted for this study. The sample size was 272 osteoarthritis clients from old age homes, Coimbatore. Purposive sampling technique was adopted in this study. Clients more than 50 years of age and of both the sexes were included for the study. newlineOsteoarthritis is a common disorder in all population and overall prevalence is same in men and women. Osteoarthritis cannot be cured but it can be controlled. The primary responsibility of nurse is to create awareness and explain about self-care management of disease, which will develop positive attitude and learn to practice according to the standard level. In this study majority of the clients had inadequate level of knowledge about the self-care management of osteoarthritis in pre-test. After newlineimplementation of video teaching programme on self-help technique of osteoarthritis majority of the clients had excellent knowledge and fully adoptive practice of selfcare management as well as reduced the severity of osteoarthritis gradually and significantly. newline newline