American Journal of Advances in Nursing Research

EFFECTS OF KNOWLEDGE PACKAGE ON MANAGEMENT OF NEONATAL JAUNDICE AMONG MOTHERS OF NEONATES ADMITTED IN NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT

Rajkrishnan R

rajkrishnanrpillai@gmail.com

Neonatal jaundice, Demographic Variable, planned teaching programme.

Background of study: - Neonatal jaundice is ridiculous but worrying as well, child is very close to mother in his early childhood hence knowledge of mother regarding neonatal jaundice like yellow coloration of skin, eyes, nails and prevention from neonatal jaundice. Prevention neonatal jaundice is all about little more awareness in child handling and child care. Every mother is concern about her child than also jaundice occurs so the aim of study is to minimize such neonatal jaundice by educating the mothers. Problem statement: - Effects of knowledge package on management of neonatal jaundice among mothers of neonate admitted to neonatal intensive care unit in Bhagyoday Tirth hospital Sagar. Objectives of the study: - (1) To assess the pre-test knowledge of mother regarding neonatal jaundice in neonates. (2) To assess the effectiveness of planned teaching programme on knowledge of mothers regarding neonatal jaundice. (3) To find the association between pre test knowledge score of mothers with selected demographic variables. Methods: - Pre experimental one group pre testpost test design. A qualitative pre-experimental research approach was used to find out the effectiveness of PTP on prevention of neonatal jaundice among the mothers. The sample consists of 60 mothers of neonates admitted in NICU. They were chosen by convenient sampling technique. The study was conducted at Bhagyoday Tirth Hospital Sagar Madhya Pradesh. The data was collected prior and after the planned teaching programme conducted post test. Results and discussion: - The data was analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics. The knowledge gained through planned teaching programme was good as it was evidence with a highly significant difference (t=19.18, P<0.001 two tailed) between the mean post-test (X2=17.32) and pre-test (X1=10.28) knowledge score. There was a significant association between the pre-test knowledge score and all the taken variable like age, education, income, occupation of mothers and gestational age of neonate.