Authors :
A. Swapna Kumari
Volume/Issue :
Volume 6 - 2021, Issue 10 - October
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Abstract :
- A comparative study to assess the knowledge
and practice regarding newborn care among postnatal
mothers in selected rural and urban communities in
Rajahmundry with a view to conduct health education
programme, was undertaken by Mrs. A. Swapna Kumari
in partial fulfilment of the requirement for the reward of
degree of Master of Science in Nursing from Swatantra
College Of Nursing, Rajahmundry during thr year 2008-
2010.The main objectives were: to assess the knowledge
and practice among the rural and urban postnatal
mothers regarding newborn care; to compare the
knowledge and practice ;to find out association between
knowledge and practice with their demographic
variables; to conduct health education programme on
newborn care. The study had made use of survey
approach with descriptive comparative design for
assessing knowledge and practice. The setting of the study
was rural and urban communities , Rajhmundry.
Asample of 60 postnatal mothers were selected by simple
random sampling technique as sampling technique for the
study. The structured questionnaire, practice checklist
and health education programme were validated and
their reliability was determined. There is a significant
difference between knowledge and practice so the
hypothesis(H1) is accepted. The results suggested that by
imparting health education to the postnatal mothers could
bring about a well improvement in their knowledge and
practice.
Keywords :
f :Degree of freedomEt.al : All otherF :FrequencyN :Total number of samples
- A comparative study to assess the knowledge
and practice regarding newborn care among postnatal
mothers in selected rural and urban communities in
Rajahmundry with a view to conduct health education
programme, was undertaken by Mrs. A. Swapna Kumari
in partial fulfilment of the requirement for the reward of
degree of Master of Science in Nursing from Swatantra
College Of Nursing, Rajahmundry during thr year 2008-
2010.The main objectives were: to assess the knowledge
and practice among the rural and urban postnatal
mothers regarding newborn care; to compare the
knowledge and practice ;to find out association between
knowledge and practice with their demographic
variables; to conduct health education programme on
newborn care. The study had made use of survey
approach with descriptive comparative design for
assessing knowledge and practice. The setting of the study
was rural and urban communities , Rajhmundry.
Asample of 60 postnatal mothers were selected by simple
random sampling technique as sampling technique for the
study. The structured questionnaire, practice checklist
and health education programme were validated and
their reliability was determined. There is a significant
difference between knowledge and practice so the
hypothesis(H1) is accepted. The results suggested that by
imparting health education to the postnatal mothers could
bring about a well improvement in their knowledge and
practice.
Keywords :
f :Degree of freedomEt.al : All otherF :FrequencyN :Total number of samples