The investigator felt that due to lack of knowledge regarding management of side effect of chemotherapy. This influenced to take up this study. A study to assess the effectiveness of informational booklet on knowledge regarding management of side effect of chemotherapy among cancer patient at cancer hospital sector 1 J.L.N. & R.C. in Bhilai (C.G.). Objectives of the study were - To assess pre test and post test knowledge regarding management of side effect of chemotherapy, to assess the effectiveness of informational booklet regarding management of side effect of chemotherapy, to associate between pre test and socio demographic variables. The study attempted to examine the following hypothesis - there will be no significant difference in knowledge score between pre test and post test levels, there will be significant difference in knowledge score between pre test and post test levels, there will be significant effect of information booklet, _there will be significant association between pre test knowledge and selected socio demographic variables. An extensive review related to literature was undertaken. The conceptual framework of this study was based on Kurt levin’s theory. A one group pre test and post test design was used to accomplish the objectives of the study. The pilot study was conducted on 6 persons of Mittal Hospital, Raipur to refine the methodology and find the feasibility of the study. The reliability was computed by Karl Pearson’s formula and was found to be 0.93. The main study was conducted in cancer Hospital sector -1 J.L.N. & R.C. in Bhilai, (C.G.). In this study non-probability convenient sampling was done to selected 60 samples in the study. The data collected was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Major findings of the study were:

§  In pre test knowledge level of cancer patients the total mean score was 859 i.e. mean 14.31 with standard deviation of 3.91 and mean percentage was 47.7%.

§  In post test knowledge level of cancer patients the total mean score 1476 i.e. mean 24.6 with standard deviation of 5.31 and mean percentage was 82% in post test. There was significant increased knowledge level in pre test and post test. Hence it is quite evident that by giving education through informational booklet is effective.

§  Evaluation of data related to effectiveness of informational booklet regarding management of side effects of chemotherapy using ‘Z-test’. The mean score regarding the knowledge in pre test was 14.31 and post test score was 24.6 and the mean difference was 10.29 standard deviation 4.50 and standard error difference was 0.82. The Z- value of knowledge score was 12.54 which is highly significant at >0.05 which proves the effectiveness of informational booklet.