To

Madam, Sudipa Roy

Associate Professor
Kothari Institute Of Nursing

Subject: Seeking the opinions and suggestions of experts regarding the items of research tool
for establishment of content validity.
Respected Madam/ Sir,
It is my great privilege to inform you that I, Moupriti Bag , M.SC. Nursing student of I Q City
Institute of Nursing, Durgapur - 06, is conducting a research study in partial fulfilment of M SC
Nursing Curriculum, the study under taken as follows.

“A STUDY TO EVALUATE EFFECTIVENESS OF HEALTH AWARENESS PROGRAMME ON PREVENTION

OF COVID-19 IN CHILDREN AMONG MOTHER’S RESIDING IN SELECTED COMMUNITY. Durgapur”

As a part of this project, I have developed data collection tools

i. Semi-structured questionnaire on demographic characteristics.
ii. Semi-structured questionnaire to identify the knowledge among the mother’s of
children regarding prevention of covid-19 in children.
I request you to kindly go through the content of the tools and give your-expert opinion and
suggestion in term of content relevancy, adequacy, appropriateness of the tools and any other
remark is highly accepted and appreciated.
Thanking you in anticipation.

Yours faithfully

Moupriti Bag
M.Sc Nursing student
I Q City Institute of Nursing Sciences
Durgapur, West Bengal, 713206
M. No 8348358615
 TOOL FOR DATA COLLECTION

“A STUDY TO EVALUATE EFFECTIVENESS OF HEALTH AWARENESS PROGRAMME ON

PREVENTION OF COVID-19 IN CHILDREN AMONG MOTHER’S RESIDING IN SELECTED
COMMUNITY. Durgapur”

SUBMITTED BY
MOUPRITI BAG
M.Sc. NURSING, 1st YEAR
I Q CITY INSTITUTE OF NURSING SCIENCES
DURGAPUR, WEST BENGAL
Statement of the problem:
A STUDY TO EVALUATE EFFECTIVENESS OF HEALTH AWARENESS PROGRAMME ON PREVENTION OF
COVID-19 IN CHILDREN AMONG MOTHER’S RESIDING IN SELECTED COMMUNITY. Durgapur.

Objective of the study:

1. .To assess the level of knowledge among the mother’s of children regarding prevention of

covid-19 in children.

2. To evaluate the effectiveness of health awareness programme on prevention of covid-19 in

children among the mother’s of children.

3. To find the association between pre-test knowledge score of mother’s with selected socio-

demographic variables among mother's of children in the experimental and control group.

Data collection tools and techniques:

Table 1: Data collection tools and techniques

SI.NO Tool Variable to be measured Technique

I. Semi structured questionnaire Demographic characteristics Questionnaire

II. Semi structured questionnaire Knowledge of mothers Questionnaire

 TOOL I ( SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC QUESTIONNAIRE)
Answer the following questions and put a tick mark against the appropriate column.
1. Age of the mother

i) 18-20 years
ii) 21-30 years
iii) 31-40years
iv) Above 40 years

2. Gender of the child

i) Male
ii) Female

3. Religion

i) Hindu
ii) Muslim
iii) Christian
iv) Others

4. Number of living children in family

i) One
ii) Two
iii) Three
iv) More than three

5. Type of family

i) Nuclear
ii) Joint
iii) Extended
iv) Single parent

6. Residential area
 i) Urban
ii) Rural
iii) Suburban

7. Education of mother

i) Professional degree
ii) Graduate or postgraduate
iii) Intermediate or post high school diploma
iv) High school certificate
v) Middle school certificate
vi) Primary school certificate
vii) Illiterate

8. Occupation of mother

i) Professional
ii) Clerical, shop-owner/farm
iii) Skilled worker
iv) Unskilled worker
v) Unemployed

9. Monthly income of the family of mother

i) Rs. 25000 – 50000/-

ii) Rs. 18000 – 24999/-
iii) Rs. 13000 – 17999/-
iv) Rs. 7000 – 12999/-
v) Less than Rs. 7000/-

10. Socio-Economic status

i) Upper
ii) Upper-middle
iii) Lower-middle
iv) Upper-lower
v) Lower
 CRITERIA CHECKLIST FOR VALIDATION OF TOOL-I
The expert is requested to kindly go through the tool and place a tick (√) in the columns provided
against each item with regard to its relevance, adequacy, appropriateness. Evaluator is requested
to go through the content and express his/her opinion by making comments in the remark column
of the criteria checklist.
Your expert opinion and kind co-operation will be highly appreciated.

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Signature of the validator:

Date:
 TOOL 2: (KNOWLEDGE QUESTIONNAIRE )

Structured knowledge Questionnaire on prevention of Covid-19

(Instructions: Give tick mark against the write answer. Each answer carries one
mark.)
1.Which is the causative organism of Covid-19?

a. Virus

b. Bacteria
C. Fungi
d. Insect
2.From which country Covid-19 Spread?

a. Italy
b. India
c. Pakistan
d. China

3.Covid-19 is transmitted by-

a. Through blood
b. Through insect
c. Through sneezing and coughing.

d. Through animal
4.How long does it take to show Covid-19 Symptoms?
a. 2-9 days
b. 3-5 days
c. 2-14 days
d. Immediately after contact with Covid-19 affected person.
5.How much Covid-19 home isolation period should be taken?

a. After 17 days from the onset of the symptom of disease.

b. After 14 days from the onset of the symptom of disease.
c. After 7days from the onset of the symptom of disease.
d. No need to take home isolation.

6.Who are the high-risk population for Covid-19?

a. New born baby
b. Children
c. Old age population (>60 years)

d. Adult girls and boys

7.How much distance should be maintained in public place for prevention of Covid-19?
a. 1 ft
b. 2ft
c. 3ft

d. 6ft
8.What are the signs and symptoms of Covid-19?
a. Decreased platelet count
b. Fever, dry cough, breathlessness.
c. Bleeding.
d. None of them
9.If you have a high fever or breathlessness what you will do?
a. Seeking medical attention.

b. Self medication.
c. Hiding illness from others.
d. Ignore illness and meeting with others.
10.When will you wash your hands?
a. After sneezing and coughing.
b. After touching any contaminated objects or subjects.

c. After coming from the outside into home

d. All of the above.

11. Which is/are used for hand washing purpose?

a. Soap and water.

b. Running water
c. Alcohol based sanitizer
d. Soap water and alcohol based sanitizer.

12.How long should one do hand wash every time?

a. <20 sec
b. at least 20 sec
c. 5 mins
d. No need of hand wash

13.What percentage of alcohol containing sanitizer should be used for prevention of Covid -
19?
a. 100%
b. 70%
c. 60%
d. 75%
14. What should be done during sneezing and coughing?
a. Covering mouth and nose with palm.

b. Covering mouth and nose with tissue and handkerchief.

c. Covering mouth and nose with used tissue.
d. No need of these
15.During sneezing and coughing which portion of your face you cover?
a. Only eyes
b. Only mouth

c. only nose
d. all of the above.
16.Which is the most effective things used for covering mouth and nose?
a. Mask

b. Dupatta
c. Handkerchief
d. All of the above.
17. What type of mask should you wear when going to outside of home?

a. N-95 Mask
b. Surgical mask
c. Cloth mask.
d. No need of mask.
18.In which age group mask should be used must?

a. under 5yrs of age.

b. 6-11 years.
c.12 years and over.
d. No need of use.
19.Mask are not probably required in which age group?
a. 5 years and under.
b. 6-11 years.
c. 12 yrs and over

d. None of them.
20.Where we will discard the used tissue, mask after using it or coughing?
a. Here and there
b. Open dustbin
c. Covered dustbin
d. Don’t know

21. After returning home what will you do with dresses and used mask and cap?
a. Can be reused without washing.
b. Can be kept with other dresses without washing.
c. can wash with soap water then drying it for re-use.

d. can wash with normal water then drying it for re-use.

22.What are the other preventive measures for preventing Covid-19?
a. To avoid touching, hugging and hand shaking with affected person
b. To avoid crowded places.

c. Staying home.
d. All of the above.
23.Which may be the right thing to preventing sore throat?
a. Warm saline water gargle
b. Drinking normal water

c. Frequent mouth wash

d. None of them.
24.What is the recommendation for breast feeding of new born baby of stable positive
mother?
a. Not given breast milk to the baby.
b. Direct breast feeding should be done.
c. Baby should be given water.
d. None of them.

25. During breast feeding, Covid- 19 affected mother should do-

a. Putting three-layered medical mask, proper cleaning of hand, breast and nipple before each
feeding.
b. Proper clothing and masking.
c. Mask and proper hand hygiene
d. No need of anything
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ANSWER KEY

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1 a 16 a
2 d 17 a
3 c 18 c
4 c 19 a
5 a 20 c
6 c 21 c
7 d 22 d
8 b 23 a
9 a 24 b
10 d 25 a
11 d
12 b
13 c
14 b
15 d
CRITERIA CHECKLIST FOR VALIDATION OF TOOL-II
The expert is requested to kindly go through the tool and place a tick (√) in the columns provided
against each item with regard to its relevance, adequacy, appropriateness. Evaluator is requested
to go through the content and express his/her opinion by making comments in the remark column
of the criteria checklist.

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Signature of the validator:

 CERTIFICATE FOR VALIDATION OF TOOL

To whom it may concern

This is to certify that the tool constructed by Moupriti Bag, M.Sc. Nursing student of I Q
City Institute of Nursing Sciences, Durgapur, West Bengal to be used for the research study
is “A study to evaluate effectiveness of health awareness programme on prevention of
covid-19 in children among mother’s residing in selected community. Durgapur” has been
validated by me.

Name of validator:
Designation:
Date:
Place:
Signature of validator with seal