Professor cum HOD, Sri Gokulam College of Nursing, Salem
Online published on 9 October, 2018.
Birth of a healthy newborn is one of the finest gifts of nature. The process of birth takes only a few hours but it is the most hazardous period of life since it is associated with largest number of deaths as compared to any other phase of life.
Assess the effectiveness of video teaching programme on Neonatal care among Primigravida mothers for improving knowledge and practice.
True experimental design pre and post-test control group design
6 urban health maternity centres, Coimbatore.
266 (147 experimental group and 119 control group) primigravida mothers adopted by Simple random sampling technique.
Structured interview schedule, Observational checklist and video teaching programme on neonatal care. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used.
In experimental group the pre-test the mean was 10.163 ± 4.783, in post-test it was 48.38±6.103, revealing excellent knowledge of mothers on the components of neonatal care. In control group pre-test mean score was 9.656 ± 3.497 whereas in post-test, the mean score was 9.656 ± 3.825 revealing very poor knowledge of primigravida mothers. In practice of neonatal care shows that, in experimental group the mean score was 56.412 ± 3.272, revealing fully adoptive practice. And in control group, the mean score was 27.547 ± 1.815, revealing mothers had partially adoptive practice. There was highly significant difference in post-test knowledge and practice scores. Positive relationship was found between knowledge and practice of experimental group primigravida mothers (r = 0.79) and no significant relation found between knowledge and practice of control group (r= 0.14).
Majority of the experimental and control group mothers had inadequate knowledge on neonatal care in pre-test. After implementation of video teaching programme primigravida mothers from experimental group had excellent knowledge and fully adoptive practice of neonatal care.
Video teaching programme, Neonatal care, Primigravida mothers, Experimental and control group
