Pamphlet as a Teaching Tool for Improving Nurse’s Knowledge Regarding Nasogastric Tube Feeding

Abstract

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to access informative pamphlets to improve nurses’ knowledge regarding nasogastric tube feeding. METHODOLOGY A quasi-experimental study was carried out among nurses in private and government tertiary care hospitals in Peshawar, KPK. The critical care unit participants were selected for the study using a convenient sampling technique. The participants were divided into control and experimental group. The experiment group was taught by informative pamphlet while the control was not. The questionnaire was adopted from similar studies, which included 17 questions. Data were analyzed by using SPSS software version 25. RESULTS The experimental group’s score was higher than the control group. The mean knowledge score of the control group participants was 15.42, whereas the mean score of the intervention group was 17.82. It shows that the intervention group resulted better than the control group. CONCLUSION Keeping in view the current study; it may be concluded that using informative pamphlets as a teaching tool significantly improves nurses’ knowledge about nasogastric tube feeding.