Devanshi Thakur

APID

9574

Member since

March 2025

Biography

ABSTRACT
Introduction: The prevalence of osteoarthritis increased from 4,895
per 100,000 persons in 1990 to 5,313 per 100,000 persons in 2019. Assessing their Level
of knee pain is key to improving detection and outcomes.
Methodology: A study was conducted using a two-group pre-test post-test design,
engaging 60 early old age through a non-probability convenient sampling technique.
Data were collected with numerical pain rating scale and
with facial pain scale and rating scale for assessment of factor trigger kne pain.
pradhan of Mandal, Nerchowk. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used for
data analysis.
Results: The study shows that majority of population are females in experimental group
1 ( 76%) and in experimental group 2 (70%). Nearly one third of males in experimental
group 1 ( 23.3%) and in experimental group 2 (30%). The paired t- test revealed
significant improvements in Experimental Group 1, post test mean score significantly
decreased from 5.03 to 1.50 with an SD of 1.480 from 1.771. In Experimental Group 2,
the post test mean score was 2.30 from 4.733 with an SD of 1.368 from 1.413. An
unpaired T-test comparing the post test scores between Experimental Group 1 and
Experimental Group 2 yielding a T-value of 2.174 with 58 degrees of freedom.
Experimental Group 1 experienced a more reduction in pain levels compared to
Experimental Group 2.