A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Teaching Session using Audio Drama on Knowledge Regarding Healthy Lifestyle Practice among Visually Impaired Children in Selected Blind School at Puducherry

Abstract

Background: The number of visual impairments in the world is 285 million blind and 246 million having low vision. In India at least 2, 00,000 children have severe visual impairment or blindness and approximately 15,000 are in schools for the blind. Aim: Analyze the success of an audio drama-based teaching session for visually impaired kids about adopting a healthy lifestyle. Materials and methods: A quantitative research approach with Quasi-experimental one group pretest-post test design used in this study. Consecutive sampling technique was used to select the 50 samples. Structured questionnaire and audio drama was administered. After 1st week post-test was done and the findings of the study showed that out of 50 children‟s. Result: The calculated paired „t‟ test value for the domain personal hygiene (t=5.641, p=0.0001), oral hygiene (t=4.463, p=0.0001), sleep hygiene (t=4.399, p=0.0001), bathing (t=5.152, p=0.0001), hand hygiene (t=4.593, p=0.0001) and for overall (t=8.998, p=0.0001) was found to be statistically significant at p