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A Descriptive Study to Assess Knowledge of Primigravida Mothers Regarding Minor Ailments of Pregnancy in Selected Hospitals of Amritsar, Punjab in a View to Develop Health Education Pamphlet

Dr. Bimla Rani

Abstract


The study adopted a descriptive survey approach to assess the knowledge of primigravida mothers regarding minor ailments of pregnancy in selected hospitals of Amritsar, Punjab in a view to develop health education pamphlet. The sample size is 100 primigravida mothers. The tool is divided into 2 sections, section 1 consists of a self-structured demographic questionnaire and section 2 consists of a self-structured knowledge questionnaire. Reliability of the tool was established by Karl’s Pearson Prophecy formulae and the values found for the knowledge questionnaire is 0.92. The study was conducted at Guru Nanak Dev Hospital and Sukhbir Hospital, Amritsar, Punjab. Out of 100 samples, the majority of samples (57%) had inadequate knowledge and minority of samples (16%) had adequate knowledge regarding minor ailments of pregnancy. The study findings shows that there is significant association with demographic variables such as age, education, type of family occupation, exercise pattern and source of information, at 0.05 level of significance.


Keywords: knowledge, minor ailments and health education pamphlet, primigravida mothers

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