Effectiveness of Video Assisted Teaching Programme on knowledge regarding weaning among mothers of Infant

 

Mr. Kadali Sam Prasad

 

ABSTRACT:

Child is a precious gift which has lot of potentials within, which can be the best resource for the nation if raised and moulded in a good manner.  Healthy children can become healthy citizens constituting healthy nation. The research design adopted was pre experimental one group pre-test and post design. The conceptual framework based on Von Bertenlanffy’s General System Theory (1968). The study has been conducted in selected Amrutaahospital at Rajkot. Non probability convenient sampling technique has been adopted to select the desired sample. The sample size was 30. As an intervention of 45 minute of video assisted teaching and structured teaching programme was administered to group. The data was collected through structured knowledge questionnaire andlevel of knowledge assess among mothers of infants. The collected data were analysed by using both descriptive and inferential statistical method. ”t” test was used for assessing the effectiveness of video assisted teaching programme on level of knowledge among mothers of infant. The obtained “t” value was 12.68 which was significant at 0.05. Level. It was observed that none of the demographic variable were not significant which was statistically not significant.

 

 

 

 

 

INTRODUCTION:

Weaning or complementary feeding is the process of gradual and progressive transfer of the baby from the breast feeding to the usual family diet.  During this process the infants gets accustomed to food other than mother’s milk.  Weaning does not mean discontinuity of breast feeding.  Weaning foods on given in addition of breast feed when the amount of breast feeding is inadequate¹.  (Parul datta 2007)

 

The average weight of an infant at birth is 2.5- 3 kg. Baby’s weight doubles almost at the end of 3 month. In fact from birth to 1 year is the time of fastest growth for the baby.

 

Milk alone cannot fully meet the baby’s needs and sustain this rapid rate of growth. Many mothers in this country rely on rice or mashed fruits. While these contain nutritive elements, they do not supply all the needs of a growing baby in the correct proportion and so is wise to give the baby a specially prepared weaning food, mixed with fruits, vegetables, and pubes in variety³. (Parul datta 2007)

 

NEED OF THE STUDY:

Play therapy is a systematic use of theoretic model to establish an interpersonal process to achieve optimal growth and development. According to the psychodynamic view people engage in a play behavior in order to relieve anxieties and stress. In this way play therapy can be used as a self-mechanism. From the developmental point of view play has been determined to be an essential component of healthy child development.³

 

A study conducted among 100 children with behavior disturbances to assess the effectiveness of play therapy has revealed that after providing 30 sessions of non-directive play therapy there is a decrease in the behavior disturbances among the group. The study concluded that the play therapy is effective to decrease the behavioral disturbance.⁴

 

OBJECTIVES:

The objectives of the study are:

·       To assess the level of knowledge on weaning among mothers of infant before and aftervideo assisted teaching programme.

·       To administer and evaluate the effectiveness of video assisted teaching programme on weaning among mothers of infant.

·       To find out the association between post test knowledge score among mothers of infant on weaning with their selected demographic variables.

 

HYPOTHESIS:

H₁-There is a significant difference between pretest and post test knowledge among mothers of infant.

H₂-There is a significant association of post-test knowledge of mothers of infant regarding weaning with theirselected demographic variables.

 

MATERIALS AND METHODS:

Research design:

The research design selected for this study is one group pre-test post-test, pre-experimental study design.

 

Setting of the study:

The study was under taken in Amrutaa Hospital Rajkot. The population selected from this setting was mothers of infants.

 

Population:

The population comprises of mothers of infants attending Amrutaa Hospital Rajkot.

 

Sample:

It includes mothers ofinfants.

 

Sample size:

In this study thesample size was decided to be 30 mothers of infants.

 

Sampling technique:

Non probability purposive sampling technique was used to select 30 mothers of under five children attending Amrutaa Hospital Rajkot.

 

Data analysis plan:

The collected data was analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics.

 

Findings:

Major study findings includes,

 

FINDINGS RELATED TO DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLES OF THE STUDY:

1    The majority of mothers belong to the age group (40%) were in the age group of above 30 years.

2    With regard to religion (53.3%) were Hindu.

3    According to type of family (66.6 %) were nuclear family.

4    On the basis of educational qualification (50%) illiterates.

5    According to occupational (50%) was Housewife.

6    On the basis of family income per month (50%) were Rs.5001-Rs.10000/-

7`   While considering number of children (50%) were two

8    While considering awareness on adverse effect on weaning with the availability of information through mass media (53.3%).

9    The paired t test was carried out and it was found to be variably significant at p>0.001 level, hypothesis was accepted. It evidence that the structured teaching program (STP) is significantly effective on improving the knowledge regarding weaning among mothers of infants.

10  With regard to association between the level of knowledge with their selected demographical variables such as religion, at level P>0.001 level, type of family at level of P>0.01 and number of children at level of P>0.05 levelhad significant association found. The study shows that the calculated chi square value is more than the tabulated value at the level of 0.05 for these demographic variables. This shows there is a significant association between the effectiveness of planned teaching programme regardingknowledgeof weaning among mothers of infants and their selected demographic variables.

 

CONCLUSION:

The main conclusion from this present study is that most of the mothers of infantshad inadequate knowledge in pretest and they improved to moderate and adequate level of knowledge in post test. This shows the imperative need to understand the purpose of planned teaching programme regarding improving the knowledge and practice about weaning among mothers of infants.

 

REFERENCES:

1.      Parul dutta. (2007). Pediatrics Nursing. 1^stedition, Jaypee Brothers. 10^th edition. Publication.pp:56-57.

2.      Duff. A study of the effects of group play on a family relation”, International Journal of Play Therapy 1996.Vol:5(2).81 93.

3.      Eaker. “Unloking the family sachet in play therapy “,Child and Adolescent Social Wok Journal.1986.Vol:3(4).235-253.

4.      Johnsonthe. Use of child centered play therapy and filial therapy with head start families: A Brief Report. Journal of Family Therapy: Vol: 25(2) 169-179.

 

 

 

 

Received on 05.03.2019          Modified on 31.05.2019

Accepted on 24.06.2019          © A&V Publications all right reserved