Immediate Effectiveness of Planned Teaching on Knowledge and Practice Regarding Household Waste Management among the Rural Community People

Abstract

Background: The generation of the waste and collection, processing, transport and disposal of waste -the
process of ‘waste management’ - is important for both health’s of the public and aesthetic and environmental
reasons. The study uncontrolled hazards waste from the industry after mixing with municipal waste create
potential risk to human health. Objectives: 1. To assess the knowledge and practice regarding household waste
management among the rural community 2. To Assess Effectiveness of Planned Teaching on Knowledge and
Practice Regarding Household Waste Management among the Rural Community People in Selected Area of
Wardha District. 3. To correlate the study finding with demographic variable. Materials and Methods: This
study was based on one group pre-test post-test experimental research study. The population was the rural
community people from Sawangi and Salod in the Wardha district. The subject consisted of 50 community
people of 18-50 years of age in the selected rural community of Wardha district. Results: The minimum
score in the posttest was 13 and the maximum score was 18, the mean score for the posttest was 16.04±1.10
with a mean percentage score of 89.11±6.14. The tabulated value for n=50-1 i.e. 49 degrees of freedom was
2.00. The calculated ‘t’ value is much higher than the tabulated value at 5% level of significance for overall
knowledge score of community people which is a statistically acceptable level of significance.