A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme Over Lecture Cum Demonstration in Improving Knowledge and Practice of Nursing Students on Antenatal Examination – A Comparative Study

Abstract

Pregnancy is a time of many physiological changes. Pregnancy and childbirth are the two vital events in the life of women. During pregnancy women require special care because, it brings double health benefits, first to her as an adult member of the community and second to the product of her pregnancy. All human life in this planet is born of women. A woman in her role as a mother forms the backbone of the family. Childbirth is a biological function, which maintains the family continuum. Antenatal examination is the one of the most important aspects of antenatal care. While examination we can diagnose several health illnesses like anemia, jaundice, hypertension, heart disease, IUGR, malnutrition, renal diseases etc. Antenatal examination indirectly saves the lives of mothers and babies by promoting and establishing good health before childbirth and the early postnatal period. The pregnant women are not aware about antenatal visits, early registration and importance of institutional deliveries, because of lack of knowledge and accessibility. Nurses are the core personnel to provide information to the pregnant women. Different various methods of teaching on antenatal examination like structured teaching programme and lecture cum demonstration, which will increase the nursing student knowledge and practice in performing antenatal examination to pregnant women and will help them to early screen the high-risk pregnancy, in order to reduce maternal or infant morbidity and mortality. Objectives: 1. To assess the pre and post test knowledge and practice of structured teaching programme on antenatal examination among nursing students of selected college of nursing, Raigarh. 2. To assess the pre and post test knowledge and practice of lecture cum demonstration on antenatal examination among nursing students of selected college of nursing, Raigarh. 3. To find out comparison of post test knowledge and practice between structured teaching programme and lecture cum demonstration in improving knowledge and practice of nursing students on antenatal examination of selected college of nursing, Raigarh. 4. To find out the effectiveness of structured teaching programme over lecture cum demonstration in improving knowledge and practice of nursing students on antenatal examination of selected college of nursing, Raigarh. 5. To find out the association between pre-test score of knowledge and practice of structured teaching programme over lecture cum demonstration of nursing students on antenatal examination with selected Sociodemographic variables. Material and methods: A comparative research design was conducted among 60 nursing students of selected college of nursing, Raigarh, Chhattisgarh in November 2021. Where subjects were selected non probability purposive sampling technique. The tool was self-structured questionnaire for knowledge and self-structured checklist for practice. The tool was validated by experts. The data obtained were analyzed and interpreted in terms of objective and hypothesis. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used for data analysis the level of significance was at 0.05. Results: Major findings of these studies are out of 30 sample in experimental group A in relation overall analysis of pre and post test knowledge score on antenatal examination of nursing students in post test, majority of subjects 22 (73.33%) had excellent knowledge on antenatal examination. In relation overall analysis of pre and post test practice score on antenatal examination of nursing students in post test, majority of subjects 19 (63.33%) had excellent level of practice on antenatal examination. In out of 30 sample in experimental group B in relation overall analysis of pre and post test knowledge score on antenatal examination of nursing students, in post test, majority of subjects 23 (76.67%) had good knowledge on antenatal examination. In relation overall analysis of pre and post test practice score on antenatal examination of nursing students, in post test, majority of subjects 15 (50%) had excellent level of practice on antenatal examination.