Knowledge and Practice of the Senior Secondary School Teachers on Disaster Management In Earthquake

Forfattere

  • Nisha Vats

Nøgleord:

Earthquake, Disaster management, Knowledge, Practices, School teacher

Resumé

Disaster reduction should begin in school that demands raising level of awareness among both students and teachers. The objective of the present study was to  develop and evaluate the information booklet on Disaster Management in Earthquake for secondary school teachers after assessing their knowledge and practice on Disaster Management in earthquake The methodology adopted for this purpose was that an intervention pre-test post-test design was used among 60 teachers of the senior secondary school of West Delhi. A semi-structured validated knowledge and practice questionnaire was developed and utilized for the data collection. The post-test was administered on 8th day. A structured opinionnaire was used to gather opinion on acceptability and utility of the booklet. Data obtained were analyzed and interpreted in the light of objectives and hypothesis, using both descriptive and inferential statistics. The results obtained from the study revealed that the difference in the mean pre-test and post-test knowledge scores was statistically significant in all the areas. There was significant positive correlation between post-test knowledge and practice scores. The information booklet was found highly acceptable and usable by the senior secondary school teachers. They expressed the need to have a Hindi version of the booklet with all the senior secondary school teachers. It was concluded from the study that awareness about disaster risk and its management can be improved using information booklet among school teachers. 

Forfatterbiografi

  • Nisha Vats
    Nursing Department,Nursing Lecturer

Downloads

Publiceret

2013-01-09

Nummer

Årg. 2 Nr. 3 (2012)

Sektion

Research Articles

Licens

Declaration and Copyright Transfer Form

(to be completed by authors)

I/ We, the undersigned author(s) of the submitted manuscript, hereby declare, that the above manuscript which is submitted for publication in the STM Journals(s), is not published already in part or whole (except in the form of abstract) in any journal or magazine for private or public circulation, and, is not under consideration of publication elsewhere.

·         I/We will not withdraw the manuscript after 1 week of submission as I have read the Author Guidelines and will adhere to the guidelines.

·         I/We Author(s ) have niether given nor will give this manuscript elsewhere for publishing after submitting in STM Journal(s).

·         I/ We have read the original version of the manuscript and am/ are responsible for the thought contents embodied in it. The work dealt in the manuscript is my/ our own, and my/ our individual contribution to this work is significant enough to qualify for authorship.

·          I/We also agree to the authorship of the article in the following order:

Author’s name                                    

 

1. ________________

2. ________________

3. ________________

_______________

We  Author(s) tick this box and would request you to consider it as our signature as we agree to the terms of this Copyright Notice, which will apply to this submission if and when it is published by this journal.