• Miss. NAHAKPAM NEETU DEVI,
• Dr Dina rani M

ABSTRACT Children’s psychological growth and development may be adversely affected by hospitalization and therefore need opportunities when they are hospitalized to ventilate their emotional stress. The objective of this study was to study the knowledge regarding importance of play and play therapy for hospitalized children before and after administration of a self instructional module among nurses. DESIGN: The research design adopted for the present study was the quasi experimental, one group pre test, post test design with self instructional module as independent variable and the knowledge of nurses regarding importance of play and play therapy for hospitalized children as dependent variable. For the present study, a structured knowledge questionnaire was prepared after validating its content with various experts in the field of child health nursing, and Medicine. It was used to assess the knowledge of nurses regarding importance of play and play therapy for hospitalized children. Data were collected from sixty nurses and was organized, tabulated and analyzed with the help of descriptive and inferential statistics and findings were interpreted. RESULTS: Majority of the nurses 78.3% were in the age group of 20 years -25 years. The total mean in the knowledge pretest was 14.23 ± 3.925, where as in the post test the total mean was 31.07 ± 2.146. Total mean percentage in the pre test was 40.65% and in the post test it significantly increased to 88.77%. It is evident that the nurses had only 40.65% knowledge in the pretest and after the administration of self instructional module their knowledge increased to 88.77%. The mean, standard deviation, mean difference and ‘t’ values of pre and post test knowledge of nurses regarding importance of play and play therapy for hospitalized children. The total pre test mean was 14.23 ± 925, where as the total post test mean was 31.07 ± 2.146. The mean difference was 16.84.The obtained‘t’ value was - 29.276, hence it is highly significant. CONCLUSIONS: The intervention was effective in increasing the knowledge of importance of play and play therapy for hospitalized children

Key words: play therapy, effectiveness,nurses

"A Study to assess the knowledge regarding importance of play and play therapy for hospitalized children before and after administration of a self instructional module among nurses", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.349-353, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1908517.pdf

"A Study to assess the knowledge regarding importance of play and play therapy for hospitalized children before and after administration of a self instructional module among nurses", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp349-353, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1908517.pdf