Year: 2025 | Month: May | Volume: 12 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 684-689
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijrr.20250573
A Study to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Regarding Kangaroo Mother Care Among Post-Natal Mothers at Government Hospital, Sangareddy
Imtijungla T Ozukum1, Nagababu Pyadala2
1Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, MNR College of Nursing, Sangareddy, Telangana-502294.
2Professor, Department of Biochemistry, MNR Medical College & Hospital, Sangareddy, Telangana-502294.
Corresponding Author: Imtijungla T Ozukum
ABSTRACT
The aim of this study to assess and evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching program on knowledge regarding kangaroo mother care on low-birth weight infants among post-natal mothers in a selected hospital at Sangareddy, Telangana. Purposive sampling technique was used to collect data from 50 postnatal mothers who were admitted in Government Hospital, Sangareddy. One group test pre-test and post-test design was used to evaluate the effectiveness of structure. In the pre-test 6(12%) were having below average, 44(88%) were having average knowledge and 0(0%) mothers were having above average. In post-test majority of the post natal mothers have improved 31(62%) above average, 19(38%) have average knowledge. Therefore, the study concluded that there was significant improvement in the knowledge of postnatal mothers which was due to the structured teaching program on KMC among postnatal mothers.
Keywords: Postnatal mothers, Effectiveness, Low-birth weight infants, structured teaching program, Kangaroo mother care.
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