LESSON PLAN ON

SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS
SCALE

SUBMITTED TO: MRS. JAYA MATHEW

VICE PRINCIPAL
TMM COLLEGE OF NURSING
SUBMITTED BY: ELSY MAYJO
IST YEAR MSC NURSING
TMM COLLEGE OF NURSING
COURSE : MSc NURSING
PLACEMENT : 1ST YEAR
SUBJECT : NURSING EDUCATION
UNIT : IV
TOPIC : SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS SCALE
VENUE : MSc NURSING CLASSROOM
DATE AND TIME : 06/04/2024 ,12.00-12.20 PM
NUMBER OF STUDENTS :5
METHOD OF TEACHING : LECTURE -CUM DISCUSSION
TEACHING AIDS : PPT, CHARTS , VIDEO, FLASHCARDS ,HANDOUTS
PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE OF STUDENTS : THE STUDENTS HAD SOME KNOWLEDGE REGRADING SOCIOECONOMIC
STATUS
OF THE SOCIETY
GENERAL OBJECTIVE:

At the end of teaching session, the students will be able to understand about the socio-economic status scale and apply this in community
health settings with positive attitude.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE:

At the end of teaching session, the students will be able to:

 Introduce socioeconomic status scale
 Define socioeconomic status scale
 List out the socioeconomic scales
 Explain the kuppuswamys socioeconomic status scales
 explain the B G Prasad’s socioeconomic status scale
 identify the udai Pareekh’s socioeconomic status scale
 explain the Agarwal socioeconomic status scale
TIM SPECIFIC CONTENT TEACHING AV AIDS EVALUATION
E OBJECTIVE LEARNING
ACTIVITY
1min Introduce INTRODUCTION: The teacher PPT
socioeconomic The socioeconomic status (SES) is one of the important factors affecting the health introduces the
status scale condition of an individual or a family. The economic and social position topic by a
relatively is being determined by various variables that are responsible for income, picture, students
education, occupation, family effluence, physical assets, social position, social watching
participation, caste, political influence, and muscle power and can be measured carefully.
by SES. It is used to identify the economic status of the society. The scale is
used in many community – based studies.
1min The students DEFINITION: The teacher PPT What is the
should be able o Socioeconomic status refers to “an individual’s position within a hierarchical social defines the definition of
to define structure, which is one of the important determinants of health status and vital aspect socioeconomic socioeconomic
socioeconomic in community – based studies. status by status?
status o A way of describing people based on their education, income, and type of showing PPT,
job. Socioeconomic status is usually described as low, medium, and high. the students take
o Socioeconomic status is an economic and sociological combined total measure of a down the notes
person’s work experience and of an individuals or family’s economic and social
position in relation to others, based on income, education, and occupation.
o Socioeconomic status is one of the most important social determinants of health and
disease, thus, widely studied constructs in the social sciences.

2min The students SCALES: The teacher lists PPT Which are the
are able to list Usually composites scales are used to measure SES, which has a combination of social out the various scales of
out the various and economic variables. several ways of measuring SES have been suggested for socioeconomic socioeconomic
socioeconomic categorizing different rural and urban populations in last decades. scales by lecture status?
scales Several scales are proposed and reported to evaluate the socioeconomic classes of cum discussion
families in specific circumstances, such as in urban or rural setting: using the PPT,
 Rahudkar scale 1960, the students
 Jalota scale 1970, listen carefully.
 Udai Pareekh scale 1964,
 Kuppuswamy scale 1976,
 Shrivastava scale 1978,
 Kulshrestha scale 1972,
 Bharadwaj scale 2001
 BG prasad’s scale
 Agarwal scale

4min The students KUPPUSWAMY’S SOCIO ECONOMIC STATUS The teacher Flashcards, What are the
should be able explains the handouts , criteria in
to explain the SCALE:( 1976) kuppuswamys Charts kuppuswamys
kuppuswamy’s o This is the most commonly used scale for determining the SES of an urban socioeconomic socioeconomic