Effectiveness of Planned Teaching Program On Knowledge Regarding Prevention of Neonatal Hypothermia Among Postnatal Mothers

Abstract

Background:Neonatal hypothermia is increasingly recognized as a risk factor for newborn survival.

The World Health Organization recommends maintaining a warm chain and skin-to-skin care for thermo

protection of newborn children. OBJECTIVE To assess the knowledge of postnatal mothers regarding

prevention of neonatal hypothermia.To prepare and conduct planned teaching program for postnatal mothers

regarding prevention of neonatal hypothermia. To evaluate the effectiveness of planned teaching program

for postnatal mothers regarding prevention of neonatal hypothermia.To find out the association of pretest

knowledge score and selected demographic variables. METHOD The pre experimental (pretest-post test

group) design was adopted . Convenient sample technique was used to select the 30 postnatal mothers

as sample. Pretest was conducted using questionnaire after that pretest a planned teaching program was

conducted for the post test . RESULT The findings of the study revealed that majority (90%) had low

knowledge, 10% had average knowledge regarding prevention of neonatal hypothermia in pre test.Similarly,

the post test scores depicted that majority (80%) had good knowledge, 20% had average knowledge and none

of them had low knowledge regarding prevention of neonatal hypothermia. Most of demographic variables

were not significantly associated with level of pre knowledge of postnatal mothers regarding prevention of

neonatal hypothermia. Only mother’s education status (x2 = 8.585 in the pretest and df=2 and p=0.014) were

found to be statistically significant at 0.05 level of significance. CONCLUSION This study showed that, the

postnatal mother’s knowledge regarding prevention of neonatal hypothermia was low and planned teaching

program is effective to improve their knowledge.