Abstract

Emotional hygiene is about noticing your feelings and tending to your psychological health, just as you would practice good physical hygiene with brushing your teeth or showering each day, you can also benefit from small daily practices that keep your mind balanced. Purpose: The purpose of the study was to assess the effectiveness of information booklet on knowledge regarding emotional hygiene among women. Method and Material: The study approach was aquantitative with study design preexperimental study on women from the selected areas. The sample size was 120 women aged between 25-60 years, having full-time, part-time job & home makers. The sample selection technique was used non-probability purposive sampling technique. The tool used for data collection was a self-structured questionnaire that contained demographic variables in section I, section II related assessment of the knowledge regarding emotional hygiene before & after administration of of information booklet on emotional hygiene among wome. The written informed consent was taken from the participants prior to the data collection, in order to establish reliability of the tool, the inter-rater method was used. Result: The result before administration intervention shows that, 49.1% of women had a good knowledge regarding emotional hygiene, 39.6% of women had an average knowledge regarding emotional hygiene and 11.3% of them with a poor knowledge regarding emotional hygiene where as after the intervention 77.7% of women had a good knowledge regarding emotional hygiene, 16.2% of women had an average knowledge regarding emotional hygiene and 5.9% of women with a poor knowledge regarding emotional hygiene. It also shows that there was significant association with education at 0.05 level of significance. Conclusion: The information booklet on emotional hygiene was helpful and found effective to maintain emotional balance and a work life balance.

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