A study to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching program on knowledge regarding gestational diabetes mellitus among antenatal women at Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar Memorial Hospital, Raipur, C.G.

This study was conducted with the objective to formulate structured teaching program to assess the pre-test and post-test knowledge regarding gestational diabetes mellitus, to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching program, and to find out the association between pre-test knowledge regarding gestational diabetes mellitus with selected socio-demographic variables. The study design was an pre-experimental, one group pre-test post-test research design. 60 samples of antenatal women who fulfil the inclusive criteria were selected based on non-probability purposive sampling technique, after getting informed consent from the study participant, the structured teaching programme was administered at Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar memorial hospital, Raipur, (C.G). The study findings revelled that in pre- test score of the antenatal women had knowledge score 7(11.67%) were average and 53(83.33%) were poor. In post-test 5(8.33%) were good and 55(91.67%) were average. pre-test mean score was 8.12(13.53%) and SD is 2 and in the post-test mean score was 17.38(28.96) and SD was 2.32. The t-value 9.54, which is significant at >0.05, proves the effectiveness of the structured teaching program.