A STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF STRUCTURED TEACHING PROGRAMME ON KNOWLEDGE REGARDING RISKS OF BOTTLE FEEDING AMONG MOTHERS IN SELECTED AREAS OF MEHSANA CITY

Author Name: 1. Saranya T., 2. Drashti S.

Volume/Issue: 05/08

Country: India

DOI NO.: 08.2020-25662434 DOI Link: https://doi-ds.org/doilink/01.2025-45956314/UIJIR

Affiliation:

1. Associate professor, Joitiba College of Nursing, Bhandu, Dist: Mehsana, India.
2. Final Year M.sc. Nursing Student, Joitiba College of Nursing, Bhandu, Dist: Mehsana, India.

ABSTRACT

Death rates in the third world countries are lower among breast fed babies and breastfed babies are having fewer infection than formula fed babies, says Ruth Lawrence, MD, a spokesman for the American paediatrics “And every day between 3000 and 4000 infants die from diarrhoea and acute respiratory infection because of inadequate breast milk given to them 2.UNICEF and WHO recommends that should exclusively breast feed for the first 4 to 6 month of life and continue breast feeding together with weaning food up to and beyond second year of life. DESIGN: A quantitative approach using pre-experimental pre-test post-test design with one group. PARTICIPANTS: 50 mothers were selected using non-probability purposive sampling technique in selected areas of Mehsana city. INTERVENTION: Structured teaching programme was given to the mothers. TOOLS: Self-structured Questionnaire was used to assess the level of knowledge regarding risks of bottle feeding among mothers. RESULTS: The results of the study showed that the mean post-test knowledge score 16.10 was higher than the mean pre-test knowledge score 10.42. The calculated value 15.84 was greater than the table value t=2.02 at 0.05 level of significance. It was also found that, there was no association between pre-test level of knowledge and selected socio-personal variables. This it was proved that structured teaching programme was an effective planned teaching method for improving knowledge of mothers regarding risks of bottle feeding.

Key words: Keywords Assess, Effectiveness, Structured teaching programme, Knowledge, Risks of bottle feeding, Mothers.