• Ms. Divyani Tumdam
• Dr. Mrs. Nisha Naik
• Mrs. Rupali Salvi

Introduction: In the 1990s a new genus, Henipavirus was identified in an outbreak in Australia and Malaysia. Fruit bats are their natural hosts. This Nipah virus has been classified under the family Paramyxoviridae. This is prevalent in Australia and in Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines and the Pacific Islands. Its natural host is fruit bats in which this causes silent infection. Symptomatic infection occurs in horses, pigs and many other domesticated wild animals. Human infection is usually subclinical, but may be flu like fever which may lead to fatal encephalitis, sometimes as outbreaks. The disease was recorded in the form of a major outbreak in India in 2001 and then a small incidence in 2007, both the outbreaks in West Bengal only in humans without any involvement of pigs6. There were series of human Nipah incidences in Bangladesh from 2001 till 2013 almost every year with mortality exceeding 70 %. The disease transmission from pigs acting as an intermediate host during Malaysian and Singapore outbreaks has changed in NIV outbreaks in India and Bangladesh, transmitting the disease directly from bats to human followed by human to human.The present study title: A study to assess the effect of health teaching on knowledge regarding nipah virusinfection among adults in selected areas. Objectives: To identify knowledge of adults regarding Nipah virus infection, to determine effect of health teaching on knowledge regarding Nipah virus infection ,to find out association of knowledge regarding Nipah virus infection with selected demographic variable. Material and Methods: In present study, researcher adopted One Group Pre-test Post-test Pre-experimental Design. It was carried out on 60samples with adults age group 18-60 years. Non Probability Convenience Sampling Method was used. Health teaching and structured knowledge questionnaire were prepared to determine the effect of health teaching on knowledge regarding Nipah virus infection. Ethical clearance was taken from Institutional ethics committee. Data analysis was done mainly using descriptive statistics test, Fisher’s exact test for association, Paired T test for effect of health teaching on knowledge regarding NIPAH virus infection. Result: level knowledge regarding NIPAH virus infection among adults in pre-test, 85% of the adults had poor knowledge score i.e. 0-5, 15% of them had average knowledge score i.e. 6-10 regarding NIPAH virus infection and the effect of health teaching on knowledge regarding NIPAH virus infection, in pre-test, 85% of the adults had poor knowledge (score 0-5), 15% of them had average knowledge score (6-10) regarding NIPAH virus infection. Conclusion: From the above findings, the researcher concluded that After administration of the health teaching, knowledge of majority of adults considerably increased to a higher score in post-test, whereas in pre-test scores remained approximately low. Recommendation: It is suggested that the study may be replicated using by conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of booklet related to NIPAH virus infection.

Effect, Health Teaching, Knowledge, Nipah virus infection, Adult)

"Effect of health teaching on knowledge regarding nipah virus infection among adults in selected areas in pcmc.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.423-431, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906Z60.pdf

"Effect of health teaching on knowledge regarding nipah virus infection among adults in selected areas in pcmc.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp423-431, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906Z60.pdf