The Effectiveness of Information Education Communication (IEC) on Knowledge and Practices Regarding Patient Safety Measure among Nursing Officers in Selected Hospital of Pune City

Abstract

Background & Objective: Patient safety is very important in the provision of quality care. Our aim was
to assess the Information Education Communication (IEC) on knowledge and practices regarding patient
safety measure among nursing officers.
Methods: A Pre-Experimental one group pre-test post-test design was adopted involving 60 nursing officers.
After obtaining informed consent nursing officers were allocated by using the Non-probability Convenience
sampling technique. IEC module was given to the nursing officers after the Pre-test was taken. An interval
of 7 days was given then post-test was obtained. Tool used in the study are Self-Structured Questionnaire on
assessment of knowledge and practice.
Results: The average change in the level of knowledge was significantly increase in post-test as compared
to pre-test. In pre-test 70% of nursing officers have average knowledge, 28.33% have poor knowledge and
1.67% have good knowledge. The mean knowledge of the nursing officers was 6.37 and standard deviations
was 0.71. While in the post-test 78.33% of nursing officers have good post-test knowledge, 21.67% have
average knowledge and no nursing officers have poor knowledge. The mean knowledge of the nursing
officers was 11.7 and standard deviations 1.75.
The change in the level of practice was also significantly increase in post-test as compared to pre-test. In
pre-test 60% of the nursing officers have average practice score, while 36.67% have poor practice and
3.33% have good practice. The mean practice of the nursing officers was 6.35 and standard deviations was
2.37 while in the post-test 53.33% of the nursing officers have good practice, 46.67% have average practice
and no nursing officers have poor practice. The mean practice of the nursing officers is 13.5 and standard
deviations from to 0.71.
Conclusion: The findings of the study shows that there is highly significant difference between the score of
pre-test and post-test. Therefore, and null hypothesis (H0) is rejected and IEC module is effective.