Effectiveness of Video-Assisted Teaching Module on Knowledge, Attitude and Body Mass Index (BMI) Scaling Down Among Over-Weight Women Diagnosed with PCOS in Selected Hospitals of Madhya Pradesh'

A quantitative research approach with experimental research design, with pre-test and posttest control group design and multiple time series design in this study. The purpose was, to assess the effectiveness of the video assisted teaching module was evaluated in terms of the knowledge gain on polycystic ovarian syndrome among 480 samples from a total of 652 over-weight women diagnosed with polycystic ovarian syndrome in selected hospitals of Madhya Pradesh. The subjects were randomly divided into two groups of equal size of 240 each using lottery method. On the 7th month of data collection sample size reduced from 240 to 210 in experimental and control group 210. The pre-test knowledge of over-weight women diagnosed with PCOS showed that majority of them had poor (50.95%), 48.80 percent of them had average and only 0.5% of total selected over-weight women had good knowledge scores. In the pre-test attitude of over-weight women diagnosed with polycystic ovarian syndrome was evaluated. 90.5 percent women’s attitude towards polycystic ovarian syndrome was strongly unfavourable, 9.05 percent had unfavourable attitude and only 1.0 percent of total selected over-weight women had favourable attitude towards polycystic ovarian syndrome. Experimental and control group comparisons was carried out to identify the differences in improvement of knowledge. Before administration of video-assisted teaching module, 92.4 percent had strongly unfavourable, after administration no one was found in this grade. 7.6 percent had unfavorable attitude regarding polycystic ovarian syndrome before administration of video-assisted teaching module but after administration post-test attitude data showed that none (0.0%) were over-weight under unfavourable attitude category. There was signi cant association between knowledge and demographic variables at 0.05 level of signi cance with the demographic variables of: educational quali cation, menstrual cycle, exercise habits and BMI status. Over-weight women with PCOS do not have adequate knowledge, or an appropriate attitude towards their diagnosed disease, whereas post intervention the knowledge score and attitude both were good, positive and favourable.