Aim: To evaluate the effectiveness of structured education on knowledge regarding postnatal diet among postnatal mothers.
Participants and setting: A pre – experimental one group pretest – posttest design was adopted for this study. The study was conducted in Sai Hospital, suryapet, Telugana, India. The investigator selected 30 postnatal mothers are who were under the age group of 23 to 35years and attending the gynae outpatient department. Who fulfilled the inclusion criteria were selected by using simple random sampling technique.
Intervention: Data was collected regarding demographic variable, knowledge on postnatal diet. The investigator assessed the level of knowledge of the women by using structured questionnaire and modified three point Likert Scale and by using checklist through one to one teaching by lecture, demonstration, video clippings and verbalization. Structured teaching programme was conducted on the same day on group wise each group consists of 10 members. Data collection was done in Telugu and English the questionnaire was distributed to each woman’s. At the end of the teaching the doubts were cleared. Then 10 minutes was allotted for discussion.
Measurement and findings: The analysis finding indicates clearly that 86.67% of mothers had adequate knowledge. A well planned structured teaching programme given to the same group. The effectiveness of programme showed high level of significant at p<0.001 level. It showed that structured teaching programme was an effective method to improve the knowledge.
Conclusion: The study findings revealed that planned teaching program was highly effective in improving knowledge of postnatal mothers regarding postnatal diet.
