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@article{184729,
        author = {MS.BHARTI VIRENDRA NAVGIRE and DR.MEENA PAGARWAR},
        title = {“TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF AN INFORMATIONAL MODULE ON KNOWLEDGE OF PARENTS REGARDING CARE OF CHILDREN RECEIVING CHEMOTHERAPY IN SELECTED HOSPITALS”},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {12},
        number = {4},
        pages = {3247-3250},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=184729},
        abstract = {Background-This study assesses parents' knowledge of chemotherapy care, highlighting the need for an informational module to improve understanding and safety in hospitals and home-based care for children undergoing chemotherapy. Objective-To assess the knowledge of parents regarding care of children receiving chemotherapy in selected hospitals. Methodology- Research design use for study experimental, one group pre-test, post-test research design. Sampling technique: -purposive sampling. 70 parents of children were selected from hospitals. The tool consists of a self-structured knowledge questionnaires based on the care of children receiving chemotherapy. After the pre-test informational module on knowledge of parents regarding care of children receiving chemotherapy was administered post test was conducted on 7th day. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used for the analysis of data. Expected result- The knowledge for pre-test, post-test Analysis resulted that pre-test had very poor level of knowledge score 18.6% of Parents and 78.6% had poor and 2.9% of Parents had good level of knowledge score. knowledge score in posttest shows that 8.57% of parents in posttest had good/average level of knowledge score, and 81.43% of parents had very good level of knowledge score and 10% parents had excellent level of knowledge score. Conclusion: It was found that parents of children had average knowledge related to care of children receiving chemotherapy. Efforts are made to increase knowledge of parents regarding care of children receiving chemotherapy through informational module. Hence, an informational module was effective in enhancing knowledge of parents regarding care of children receiving chemotherapy.},
        keywords = {Informational module, Chemotherapy, parents of children},
        month = {September},
        }