1(S.N.G.N.C., IGMC& HospitalShimla)
Background: Motherhood is the most blissful stage of any woman’s life. It comes with lots of happiness, joy, ecstasy; but fear & anxiety is also a part of it. Many women experience some affective symptoms during the postpartum period, 4-6 weeks following delivery. Most of these women report symptoms consistent with “baby blues,” a transient mood disturbance characterized by mood lability, sadness, dysphoria, subjective confusion, and tearfulness.
Aim: A Pre-Experimental study was conducted in a selected hospitals named Kamla Nehru Hospital and Deen Dayal Upadhyay hospital at district Shimla, H.P. with an objective to assess the knowledge regarding postnatal depression among staff nurses, to assess the effectiveness of self-instructional module on knowledge regarding postnatal depression among staff nurses and to find the association of knowledge of staff nurses regarding postnatal depression with selected variables.
Methodology: Quantitative research approach was used with one group pre-test post-test design, which is a pre-experimental design to measure the effectiveness of self- instructional module on postnatal depression among the staff nurses. The study was conducted in a Kamla Nehru Hospital and Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital Shimla. The sample comprised of 60 staff nurses selected by convenient sampling technique.
Result: The study findings revealed that 6 (10%) had good knowledge, 31(51.7%) had average knowledge and 23(38.3%) had poor knowledge regarding postnatal
depression after administration of self-instructional module knowledge regarding postnatal depression is 96.7% had good knowledge, 3.3% had average knowledge and none had poor knowledge. There was statistically no significant association between pre-test and post-test knowledge with socio demographic variables.
Conclusion: There is enhancement of knowledge of staff nurses regarding postnatal depression after application of self-instructional module.
Staff nurses, Knowledge, Postnatal depression
