Effectiveness of Nursing Intervention Package on Improving Bone Health among Post Menopausal Women Residing in Rural Villages of Tiruvannamalai District

Abstract

Title of The Study: A study to assess the effectiveness of nursing intervention package on improving bone health among post menopausal women residing in rural villages of Tiruvannamalai district. Method: A nonequivalent control group pre and posttest design was used. Totally 250 post menopausal women had participated in the study. There were 131 participants in experimental group 119 participants in control group from kizhkachirapattu and pappampadi villages respectively. They had been selected by using enumeration sampling technique. Results: The study findings shows that there is a significantly increase in knowledge (p=0.001) and bone mineral density level (p=0.001) among post menopausal women in experimental group than the control group. Conclusion The study concluded that after providing the selected nursing interventional package would help to increase the knowledge and bone mineral density level among post menopausal women. newline