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A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on Knowledge and Practice Regarding Prevention of Anemia among Antenatal Mothers Attending Antenatal OPD at CIHSR, Dimapur, Nagaland

Ms. Arhoni Tungoe, Simpson Christy

Abstract


Objective: A study to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge and
practice regarding prevention of anemia among antenatal mothers attending antenatal OPD at
CIHSR, Dimapur, Nagaland. Methods: The study design was a pre-experimental research design.
Non-probability total enumerative sampling technique was used with a sample size of 60 participants.
The study was conducted in antenatal OPD of CIHSR Dimapur, Nagaland. Pre-tested and validated
tools to assess knowledge and practice were used for data collection. The instruments used for
knowledge regarding prevention of anemia were structured questionnaire consisting of 13 items and
for knowledge related practice, dichotomous questions consisting of 14 items were used. Reliability of
the knowledge questionnaires was found to be 0.95% using Cronbach’s Alpha. Ludwig Von
Bertalanffy System Model was used. An ethical approval was obtained from the Ethical Research
Committee, CIHSR. Data was developed and interpreted by using descriptive and inferential
statistical method. Result: The mean post-test knowledge score (22.25%) of antenatal mother showed
a significant increase from the mean pre-test score (6.25%) after implementation of STP on
prevention of anemia with a mean difference of 16.13, which is found to be statistically significant as
evident from ‘t’ value of 20.12 for df (59) at 0.05 level of significance. Most of the items on practice
regarding prevention of anemia showed highly statistically significant difference at (p≤0.00001),
significant at (p≤0.05) level of significance. 75.11% of the participants showed good practice after the
intervention (STP). Thus, we conclude that the
structured teaching programme was effective in
increasing both knowledge and practice scores.
Conclusion: The current study has implications for
nursing education and practice. It could assist in
increasing the knowledge and practice regarding
prevention of anemia among the antenatal women.
It has brought a lot of sensitivity among the
antenatal mothers on the importance of taking iron
supplementation and taking rich iron diet and how
it can have an impact on the fetus as well. Different
interventions such as a video assisted teaching and
an information booklet could be compared with
STP to determine the best ways for creating greater
awareness about prevention of anemia.


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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/ijwhn.v4i2.2010

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