Asian Pacific Journal of Nursing

ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF STRUCTURED TEACHING PROGRAMME ON KNOWLEDGE REGARDING WEANING AMONG MOTHERS OF INFANTS AT PEDIATRIC OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT OF A SELECTED HOSPITAL AT KOLLAM DISTRICT

Ms. Sunu K Rajan

sunurajan89@gmail.com

Effectiveness, Structured Teaching Programme, Weaning

The aim of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding weaning among mothers of infants in a selected hospital at Kollam district. The objectives of the study were to assess the knowledge regarding weaning among mothers of infants, to evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding weaning among mothers of infants, to find out the association between pretest knowledge scores with the socio demographic variables. The study was undertaken with 20 samples. Convenience sampling was used. The research design was one group pre-test post-test design. Structured knowledge questionnaire was used for collecting the data. Pretest was administered followed by structured teaching programme and posttest was done. The data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The study findings shows that in the pretest 0% of mothers are having poor level of knowledge, 55% of mothers are having average level of knowledge and 45% are having good level of knowledge and 0% has excellent knowledge regarding weaning among mothers of infants. After the structured teaching programme, in the posttest 0% of mothers have poor level of knowledge, 0% having average level of knowledge, 60 % having good level of knowledge and 40% having excellent level knowledge regarding weaning. The calculated t value (18.420) is higher than tabulated t value (2.86) at 0.01 level of significance. So the hypothesis (H1) was accepted. Hence it can be concluded that there is statistically significant difference in the knowledge level of mothers regarding weaning among mothers of infants. It is inferred that structured teaching programme was effective in increasing the knowledge score of mothers regarding weaning among mothers of infants. It was concluded that there was a significant improvement in posttest score when compare to the pretest score, so the structured teaching was effective. There was no significant association found between the pretest knowledge scores with the selected socio demographic variables