• HARSHA HANSPAL
• JINCE MARY PRASAD

Background of the study: CHD is also called Coronary arteriosclerosis, Coronary atherosclerosis. Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the most common type of heart disease. It is the leading cause of death in the United States in both men and women. CHD happens when the arteries that supply blood to heart muscle become hardened and narrowed. This is due to the build up of cholesterol and other material, called plaque, on their inner walls. This build up is called atherosclerosis. As it grows, less blood can flow through the arteries. As a result, the heart muscle can't get the blood or oxygen it needs. This can lead to chest pain or a heart attack. Most heart attacks happen when a blood clot suddenly cuts off the hearts' blood supply, causing permanent heart damage. Over time, CHD can also weaken the heart muscle and contribute to heart failure and arrythmias. Heart failure means the heart can't pump blood well to the rest of the body. Arrhythmias are changes in the normal beating rhythm of the heart.2 According to existing knowledge, CHD epidemics are essentially preventable. For example, CHD mortality has fallen one-third to one-half in the last three decades in majority of developed countries. The reasons for the accelerated decline in CHD mortality from 1980-1990 were analyzed. They found that 25% of the decline was due to primary prevention, 29% due to secondary prevention and 43% was due to improvements in treatments of patients. This demonstrates that modification of risk factors related to lifestyle in the entire nation, rather than advances in management of few with overt CHD is largely responsible for dramatic decline of CHD mortality in the developed countries. This is clear proof that the average of CHD reduced with appropriate measures. Objectives: 1. To assess the knowledge on risk factors and prevention of coronary heart disease among graduate students at a selected college by pre-test.2To evaluate the effectiveness of a structured teaching programme on risk factors and prevention of coronary heart disease among graduate students by comparing pre-test and post-test knowledge.3 To test the association between post-test knowledge of graduate students with their selected demographic variables. Methodology: One group pre-test and post-test design with an evaluate approach was adopted to evaluate the “effectiveness of structured teaching programme on risk factors and prevention of coronary heart disease among graduate students” in selected college at Bangalore. The study was conducted at Hillside College of Pharmacy, Bangalore. Samples include graduate students of Hillside College of Pharmacy, Bangalore, who fulfils the inclusion criteria were selected by non-probability purposive sampling technique. Results: The comparison of pre-test and post-test mean score of knowledge revealed “z” value was z = 35.78 which showed an extremely significance at p<0.00001. Hence the study concluded that structured teaching programme has improved the level of knowledge on risk factors and prevention of coronary heart disease among graduate students. Conclusion: There was a significant improvement of knowledge among graduate students at Hillside College of Pharmacy after structured teaching programme was conducted. Thus, structured teaching programme on risk factors and prevention of coronary heart disease was an effective intervention in the enhancement of knowledge among graduate students. The present study conducted by the investigator, mainly focused on the structured teaching programme to improve the knowledge on risk factors and prevention of coronary heart disease and was found effective and also the researcher insisted the graduate students take prevention from coronary heart disease.

Assess; Coronary Heart Disease; Knowledge; Risk factors; Prevention; Graduate students; Structured teaching programme; Effectiveness

"A STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF STRUCTURED TEACHING PROGRAMME ON KNOWLEDGE REGARDING RISK FACTORS AND PREVENTION OF CORONARY HEART DISEASE AMONG GRADUATE STUDENTS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.765-770, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907O95.pdf

"A STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF STRUCTURED TEACHING PROGRAMME ON KNOWLEDGE REGARDING RISK FACTORS AND PREVENTION OF CORONARY HEART DISEASE AMONG GRADUATE STUDENTS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp765-770, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907O95.pdf