Structured Teaching Programme Regarding Selected Aspects of Safe Motherhood on Knowledge among Primipara Mothers

Abstract

Saving mother’s life is a global aim as the health of mothers has long been considered as cornerstone ofpublic health and attention. Safe motherhood means ensuring women receive care they need to be save andhealthy throughout pregnancy, during and after child birth.1Mothers health status during pregnant and after delivery determines health status of the child. Thereforehealth care of the mother and children occupies an important place in our health care system and is anintegrated part of primary health care.2From the above reviews an investigator felt that the nurses are still needed to practice the routine maternal andnew born care and are reluctant to practice anything new. It was educative and evaluative approach with onegroup pre test, post test design. The study was conducted at selected Hospital at Hassan District, Karnataka.The target population was 60 selected by Non Probability purposive sampling tecnique. The method ofdata collection include 30 structured knowledge Questionnaire. The findings are Pre-test knowledge scorewas 34.6% with mean knowledge level 10.38+/- 1.30 and Post-test knowledge score was 82.8% with meanknowledge level 24.83+/- 2.14. The hypothesis has accepted with the calculated paired t-test that wassignificant at the level of (P=0.001). According to the findings of the study statistically significant associationwas present between the level of knowledge gain and age, place of residence and education at the P<0.001.