Effectiveness of structured teaching programme on level of knowledge regarding safe motherhood among antenatal mothers at maternity centre, Salem

The world health organization estimated that 150 million pregnancies occur annually. pregnancy related complications die nearly 6, 00, 000 each year; of these 99% of death occurs in developing countries. Quantitative experimental research approach was adopted for this study. 60 samples were selected (n=60) at gestational weeks of 28–34 weeks based on inclusion criteria by using purposive sampling technique. Pre-test was conducted with the help of structured interview schedule. Structured teaching programme on safe motherhood was given and post test was conducted after 15 days. The study findings showed that Majority of the mothers (53%) were between 33–34 weeks of gestation. In pretest 88% of mothers had inadequate knowledge, whereas in post test 68% of mothers had moderately adequate knowledge. The mean pretest score was 11.79±6.07 whereas in post test mean score was 32.66± 6.47. The calculated‘t’ value was 26.14 which was highly significant at p≤0.05 level. Hence it was proved that the structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding safe motherhood was effective. There was no significant association between pre and post test knowledge scores with demographic variables.