Effectiveness of Nurse Led Intervention module on Cord Blood Banking in terms of knowledge and attitude among adolescents

Abstract

            Cord blood banking is the most important topic of science and technology today. Cord blood banking refers to collection and preservation of cord blood for the treatment of blood and immune disorders that may occur in the future. Female graduates (Adolescents) need to understand about cord blood banking hence they are going to give birth to the baby in future. The study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of Nurse Led Intervention on Cord Blood Banking in terms of knowledge and attitude among adolescents in St. Jerome’s college at Kanyakumari district.The study design used was pre experimental one group pretest posttest design. The samples were 60 adolescent girls selected through convenient sampling. Among the participants, majority 45 (75%) had inadequate knowledge on cord blood banking, 10 (17%) had Moderate knowledge and 5 (8%) had adequate knowledge about cord blood banking in the pretest The Mean post-test knowledge (14.9) was higher than the mean pre-test knowledge (6.55) with standard deviation (14.82) and the obtained t value(2.72) was significant at p< 0.05. The Mean post-test level of attitude (36)was higher than the mean pre-test level of attitude(17.7) with the standard deviation (26.9) and the obtained t value(8.14) was significant at p< 0.05 The study concluded that nurse led intervention module  was highly effective in improving knowledge and attitude on cord blood banking among adolescent college girls at kanyakumari.