A study to assess the effectiveness of instructional module in terms of knowledge gain about adherence to anti-retroviral therapy & prevention of re-infection among recently diagnosed HIV positive clients in selected ART centre and community care center

Abstract

HIV/AIDS is the greatest health risk the world faces today. Seeing to the magnitude of the problem 39.5 million people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide and approximately 2.5 million PLWHAs are in India {According to National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) 2007} and about one in six people (16%) are in need for Antiretroviral Therapy. Therefore aim of the study was to assess the effectiveness of instructional module in terms of knowledge gain about adherence to anti retroviral therapy & prevention of re-infection among recently diagnosed HIV positive clients Material and method Preexperimental design with one group pre and post test was used. A sample size of 40 recently diagnosed HIV positive clients were selected using purposive sampling. The findings of the study indicated the mean post-test knowledge score (22.95) was higher than the mean pre-test knowledge score (13.88). The 't' test computed ('t' = 14.34, P< 0.05) showed a significant difference suggesting that the self instructional module was effective in increasing the knowledge regarding adherence to anti retroviral therapy among recently diagnosed HIV positive clients to prevention of re-infection.