Global Journal of Medical Research, K: Interdisciplinary, Volume 22 Issue 1

current mode of testing & vaccination from the health care setting or physician. 6 II. O bjectives of the S tudy 1) To identify the knowledge of staff nurses giving care to COVID patients in experimental and control group regarding COVID prevention. 2) To determine the knowledge of staff nurses giving care to COVID patients in experimental and control group regarding COVID prevention after the administration of Video Assisted Teaching (VAT). 3) To evaluate the effectiveness of Video Assisted Teaching (VAT) by comparing post-test knowledge scores regarding COVID prevention between experimental and control group among staff nurses giving care to COVID patients. 4) To associate the pre-test knowledge scores with selected socio-demographic variables regarding COVID prevention among the staff nurses of COVID patients in experimental and control group. III. M ethodology Methodology of research organizes all the components of study in a way that is most likely to lead to valid answers to the problems to have been posed. a) Research approach The selection of the research is a basic procedure for the conduction of research study. In view of the nature of the problem selected for the study and objectives to be accomplished, evaluative research approach was adopted. b) Research design The form research design denotes to a plan of a scientific study. Research design combines the most important methodology decisions that researches makes in leading a research study. It depicts the complete plan for organization of scientific examination. It helps the researches in choice of subjects, manipulation of the independent variable, observation of a type of statistical investigation to be used to interpret the data. The research design selected for the present study was pre-test and post-test with nonequivalent control group design. GROUP PRETEST INTERVENTION POST TEST Staff Nurses giving care to the COVID patients Knowledge regarding COVID Prevention Video Assisted Teaching (VAT) Knowledge regarding COVID Prevention O 1 X O 2 Key O1 = Assessment of pre-test scores X = Video Assisted Teaching (VAT) O2 = Assessment of post-test scores c) Variables under study A notion which can take on different qualitative standards is called a variable. d) Independent Variable An independent variable is that stances alive and is not dependent on any additional. In the study independent variable refers to the Video Assisted Teaching (VAT) on COVID Prevention. e) Dependent Variable A dependent variable is the variable the researcher involved in understanding, explaining or forecasting. Knowledge of staff nurses about COVID prevention is the dependent variable in this study. f) Population The entire set of individuals or objects withsome common features. In the present study the population comprised of staff nurses of COVID patients. g) Sample and sample size h) Sampling technique Sampling refers to the course of selecting the portion of population to signify the whole population. Non-probability convenient sampling technique was espoused for the present study. i) Selection and development of tool The tool selected in research must be the vehicle that acquires the best data for drawing conclusions to the study. The tool act as an instrument to assess and gather the data from the respondents of the study. Keeping in mind a self-administered questionnaire was selected and developed. The main purpose behind developing this tool was need of the hour to educate the staff nurses of COVID patients. The tool was developed based on,  Past clinical knowledge of the student investigator. 28 Year 2022 Global Journal of Medical Research Volume XXII Issue I Version I ( D ) K © 2022 Global Journals A Study to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Video Assisted Teaching (Vat) on Knowledge Regarding Prevention of Corona Virus among Staff Nurses Working in Ah & RC, B G Nagara, Karnataka Sample: Sample is a subgroup of a population designated to participate in a research study. It is a position of the population which signifies the entire population. In this study samples were staff nurses giving care to the COVID patients in the AH & RC. Sample size: 60 staff nurses were selected.