A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Program Regarding Selected Prenatal Hygiene among Antenatal Mothers Working in Selected Garment Factories at Anekal Taluk, Bangalore

Abstract

Prenatal hygiene is one of the most common problems in both developed and developing countries and lack of patience to practice prenatal hygiene is the most common cause. The most common aspects of prenatal hygiene are related to dental hygiene, breast hygiene, food hygiene and perineal hygiene. The significant lack of prenatal hygiene is leading to increase in the number of abortions, still births, infections etc., worldwide. Hence it is very essential for antenatal mothers to have in depth knowledge regarding prenatal hygiene to prevent complications. The pre-test mean knowledge scores obtained from the antenatal mothers was 14.61. After administering Structured Teaching Programme (STP), post-test mean knowledge scores increased to 27.35 with the table value 1.96 and found to be significant at the level of p <0.05 which indicates that the developed STP helped in increasing the knowledge of the antenatal mothers. Hence the research hypothesis stating that there will be significant difference between the pre-test and post-test knowledge scores regarding selected prenatal hygiene among antenatal mothers was accepted. It has been found that educational status, income and gestational age had significant association with pre-test knowledge levels.