• Suman Lata
• Narendra Kumar
• Tanima Verma
• Dr Manoj Kumar
• Dr Alok Kumar

There are about 16-33 million cases of typhoid fever annually, accounting for nearly 6 lakh deaths. An earlier surveillance study conducted by the AIIMS, in a Delhi slum showed a peak incidence of typhoid in children between age 1 and 5 years and that the disease was as severe in children as in adults. Vaccination can help control the increasing morbidity and mortality. Sample of fifty mothers of under five children were selected by using convenient sampling technique. Pretest was conducted by distributing the structured knowledge questionnaire and the subject were requested to mark the correct answer and then conducted a structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding optional vaccines. Teaching regarding optional vaccine was given and then the post test of the study was carried out on the eighth day, using same tool as the pretest. The overall pretest knowledge score of mothers of under five children was 7.18 and posttest score was 21.08. This difference pretest and post test mean score is 13.9 with a paired t value of 13.28 and it is statistically significant. Difference between pretest and posttest score was analyzed using paired ‘t’ test and it was found highly significant at 0.005 level. Hence the objective 3 is achieved. The above findings of the second objective are supported by a study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding optional vaccines among mothers of under five children at Coimbatore, India One group pretest and post test experimental design was used for the study 40 mothers selected by convenience sampling technique. A structured interview schedule was used to assess the knowledge. The pretest mean score of knowledge was 19.35 and the post test score of knowledge among the rural mothers was 22.5. The study concluded that the mean post test score of knowledge was higher than mean pretest knowledge score. The overall pretest scores was 23.9 % and the posttest scores was 70.3%. The student paired ‘t’ value 13.28 was greater than the table value at P. Hence it can be concluded that the teaching was effective in improving the optional vaccine

: Structured teaching programme (STP), knowledge, optional vaccines, mothers of under five children , community area at Hassan.

"“A study to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme (STP) on knowledge regarding optional vaccines and its purpose among mothers of under five children in selected community area at Hassan", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 9, page no.b301-b305, September-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2309134.pdf

"“A study to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme (STP) on knowledge regarding optional vaccines and its purpose among mothers of under five children in selected community area at Hassan", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 9, page no. ppb301-b305, September-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2309134.pdf