Volume - 13 | Issue-1
Volume - 13 | Issue-1
Volume - 13 | Issue-1
Volume - 13 | Issue-1
Volume - 13 | Issue-1
Today’s age draws attention to an important concern for India: The emerging number of crimes in its lack of a common emergency number, similar to 911 in the USA, and 999 in the UK. While there are a number of existing emergency helplines like the 108 national helpline which provides emergency medical services free of cost, very few are aware of it. Thepresent study title:“A study to assess the impact of educational media (pamphlet) on awareness regarding emergency helpline numbers among the people residing in selected urban areas of Pune city.” Material and Methods: In present study, researcher adopted Quasi experimental design. (Pretest and Posttest). It was carried out on 200 samples. The Non-probability convenient sampling method. was used to data was collected using demographic profile and clinical profile. Data analysis was done mainly using descriptive statistics. Result: Result revealed the mean score of Posttest is 14.5 with Sd of 3.31 which is more than pretest mean 10.8 with 2.95 SD and calculated value of paired t test was 11.5 with p value 0.00001 so p value is less than 0.05 level of significant which means null hypothesis rejected and there is impact of educational media on awareness regarding emergency helpline number among the people. Conclusion: Study concluded that age in year, occupation, Place of residence, type of family & education qualification were not found associated with knowledge of emergency helpline numbers at the significant level of 0.05.