INTRODUCTION:

Pregnancy and Child birth are special events in women`s lives and indeed in the lives of their families. This can be a time of great hope and joyful anticipation. The aim of antenatal health education is to create awareness among expectant mothers and motivate them to monitor their health status to promote the well being of both mother and fetus. The quality of care is more important than the quantity. Pregnancy requires specialized care generally agreed to preventive activity. Kamini (2007) explained that pregnancy is a normal physiological event. Knowing a woman is pregnant is the beginning of care in pregnancy.

However pregnancy is not formally anounced in most of the Indian families. Birth is a time for joy and celebration a time for congratulations, good wishes and gifts. Sadly not all births are happy occasions. That is because no proper care was given during the pregnancy. The antenatal care is complete when health information is imparted.

STATEMENT OF PROBLEM:

A study to assess the effectiveness of plannedteaching programme on knowledge regarding antenatal care among primi mothers in selected hospitals of Surat Gujarat.

OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY:

1. To assess the pre test knowledge score regarding antenatal care among primi mothers.

2. To determine the effectiveness planned health teaching regarding antenatal care among primi mothers

3. To find out the association between pre test knowledge score of primi mothers with selected socio-demographic variables.

HYPOTHESIS:

H01: There is no significant difference between pre test and post test knowledge score among primi mothers regarding antenatal care.

H02: There is no significant association between pretest knowledge scores regarding antenatal care among primi mother with their socio-demographic variables.

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY:

· Research approach – An evaluative research approach

· Research design- Pre experimental one group pretest – posttest design

· Variables of the study

· Independent variable: Planned Teaching Programme

· Dependent variable: knowledge regarding antenatal care

· Research setting – Selected Hospitals, Surat Gujarat

· Population –primi motherswho has admitted in hospitals

· Sample size – 30

· Sampling Technique – Non-probability randomsampling technique

Tool for data collection:

Tool was divided into 3 parts:

Part–A

Socio demographical variables – This part consisted of items for obtaining information about demographic variables such as age, religion, education, income, habitants, Gestational period, type of family and source of information

Part – B

Structure questionnaires on knowledge of antenatal care

RESULTS:

Table1: Frequency and percentage distribution of socio-demographic variables.

Sr. No.

Variable

Frequency

(f)

Percentage

(%)

Age

· 18-20

· 21-25

· 26-30

· 30 years above

16.66%

73.33%

10%

Religion

· Hindu

· Muslim

· Christian

· Other

90%

10%

Education

· Primary

· Secondary

· Graduate

· Illiterate

70%

20%

6.66%

3.33%

Income

· Below Rs 2000/month

· Rs 20001 to Rs 5000/month

· Rs 50001 to Rs 10,000/month

· Above Rs 10,001/month

23.33%

33.33%

23.33%

20%

Habitants

· Rural

· Urban

53.33%

46.66%

Gestational period

· First trimester

· Second trimester

· Third trimester

53.33%

23.33%

Types of family

· Nuclear family

· Joint family

· Extended family

30%

63.33%

6.66%

Sources of information

· Television and radio

· News paper and magazine

· Female health worker /ASHA/family member

· Other resource

6.66%

16.66%

76.66%

Table 2: Frequency and percentage distribution of pre-test and post-test knowledge scores n = 30

Knowledge Level	Pre-test		Post-test
Knowledge Level	Frequency(F)	Percentage (%)	Frequency(F)	(%)
Poor	20	67%	00	00%
Average	08	27%	06	20%
Good	02	06%	24	80%

Maximum score = 30

Figure 1: Mean difference between pre-test and post-test knowledge score

Table 3: Range, Mean, Median and Standard Deviation of pre-test and post-test knowledge score of primi antenatal mothers.

Knowledge

Range

Mean

Median

Standard

Deviation

Pre-test

10.4

4.16

Post-test

23.23

4.36

Testing of hypothesis:

H01: There is no significant difference between pre test and post test knowledge score among primi mothers regarding antenatal care.

The above hypothesis was tested using paired ‘t’ test.

The calculated ‘t’ value (12.15) was significantly higher than the table value (t29=2.05) at 0.05 level of significance which indicates that the planned health teaching was highly effective improving the knowledge of primi mother regarding antennal care. Hence the null hypothesis is rejected and research hypothesis is accepted. It can be inferred that the planned health teaching was highly effective improving a knowledge score of primi mothers regarding antenatl care.

Association between the pre-test score and the selected demographic variables:

It was found that there were no significant association between the pre-test score and the selected demographic variables such as age, religion, education, income, habitants, gestational period, types of family, source of information, 0.05 level of significance.

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Keeping in view the findings of the present study, the following recommendations have been made for the study:

1. Similar study can be replicated on a large sample.

2. A study can be conducted with control group.

3. The comprehensive study may be conducted to find out the effectiveness between STP and PTP regarding the same topic.

4. A co-relational study can be conducted to assess the knowledge of mothers.

5. A longitudinal study can be done using post-test after 1 week to see the relation of knowledge.

6. Regular in-service education should be conducted for mothers regarding antenatal care.

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Received on 06.04.2020 Modified on 27.04.2020

Int. J. Nur. Edu. and Research. 2020; 8(4):429-431.

DOI: 10.5958/2454-2660.2020.00095.2