A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Educational Programme Regarding Birth Preparedness Among Primi Antenatal Mothers Attending Anganwadi Selected Area of Bhilai-3

Abstract

Every pregnancy is a joyful moment for all mothers who dream of a safe pregnancy and a healthy baby. Birth preparedness can be categorized in three areas- Antenatal preparedness, intranatal preparedness, postnatal preparedness. Material and Methods: In present study using quantitative (experimental) approach is a study that combines both pretest and posttest studies by testing a single group before and after administering the treatment on 60 primi antenatal mothers attending of Anganwadi at Bhilai-3. Purposive sampling technique was used to assess the educational programme regarding birth preparedness among primi antenatal mothers. The self-structure questionnaire (for assessment of knowledge) was used for data collection. During the educational teaching, the educative material PowerPoint was used. The data collected were carried out in three phases: the pre-test was carried out before educative programme, followed by educative programme was given. After 15 days, the posttest was carried out. Results: In relation to overall in pre-test 54% have good knowledge , 33% have average knowledge, and 17.5% have poor knowledge, regarding birth preparedness. However, in post test 63.3% have good knowledge and 81.6% have excellent knowledge regarding birth preparedness. This data signifies the teaching programme was very effective in terms of gain in knowledge score regarding birth preparedness among primi antenatal mother, respectively. The findings related to knowledge score regarding Birth preparedness among antenatal mothers. The posttest knowledge score Mean (48), SD(7.5) is higher than the pre test knowledge score Mean(18.4), SD(4.8) and t value =3.16 obtained, which is higher significant at degree of freedom 59 is 2.0 at p=0.05 Significance level i.e. calculated “t” value is greater than the table value. Karl Pearson coefficient of correlation was find out between pre test and post test awareness (r = 0.9) shows that effectiveness of educational programme positively correlated with pre test and post test knowledge of primi antenatal mothers. Conclusion: The study outcomes reveals that the educational programme was effective in improving the educational programme with educative materials improved the knowledge birth preparedness among primi antenatal mothers.