2024, Vol. 6, Issue 2, Part A

Background: Decades of research has documented that play has a crucial role in the optimal growth, learning, and development of children from infancy through adolescence. Yet, this need is being challenged, and so children’s right to play must be defended by all adults, especially educators and parents and also nurses. The time has come to advocate strongly in support of play for all children in hospital also.

Methodology: The research design used in this study was the pre-experimental one group pre-test, post-test design. 35 pediatric nurses were selected by purposive sampling technique. The tools used for data collection was a structured knowledge questionnaire. As an intervention, administration of self-instructional module on knowledge regarding therapeutic use of play materials in hospital.

Results: The study revealed that 37% of nurses were excellent, and 31.43% were good in terms of gaining knowledge on therapeutic use of play materials in hospital after self-instructional module. In pretest Mean score was 14.5, SD 6.10 AND MEAN percentage was 41.62%. Whereas In post-test Mean was 22.06, SD was 6.48 and mean percentage was 63.03%. The‘t’ test (t49=6.69, p< 0 .05) revealed that self-instructional module was highly effective in gaining knowledge among pediatric nurses.

Conclusion: The findings of the study concluded that self-instructional module was highly effective in gaining knowledge among pediatric nurses.