A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on Exclusive Breastfeeding among the Primi Antenatal Mothers in a selected hospital, Tumkur

M.FATHIMA KANI

Volume : V, Issue : I, January - 2016

A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on Exclusive Breastfeeding among the Primi Antenatal Mothers in a selected hospital, Tumkur

M. Fathima Kani

Abstract :

The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness of the structured teaching programme on exclusive east feeding among the primi antenatal mothers. The chosen research design was Quasi experimental design with one group pretest and posttest. This study was carried out in the outpatient department of the selected hospital, Tumkur in 2012. 50 Primi antenatal mothers who were above 32 weeks of gestation were chosen purposively for this study. A structured interview schedule was conducted Section A ( socio–demographic) and Section B. (various aspects of east feeding). The tool was validated by the experts. Pilot study was conducted to check the feasibility of the main study. Internal consistency method was used to check reliability of tool. Reliability of the tool was ?= 0.90. The investigator collected the data on knowledge of exclusive eastfeeding and then Structure teaching program was intervened & posttest was done after a gap of seven days. Overall pretest mean score was 5.22 with the standard deviation of 3.587 and posttest mean score was 18.40 with the standard deviation of 3.003. The overall pretest and posttest mean difference was –13.180 , S.DD= 3.668, S.ED=0.519 with the paired �t� test value 25.406. Hence, statistically there is significant difference in posttest knowledge score from pretest .There was a significant association was found between the knowledge of the primi antenatal mothers and the socio demographic variables like age, educational status, occupation, type of family, income, area of residence and previous information.