Background: Child required to fulfilling their basic needs by parental love, and affection. According to WHO (2019) statistics 7.4% of children aged 3-17 years have diagnosed with behaviour problem. In India 2017, behavioural problem was found to be 21.08% along with other emotional disorders. The rate of sibling rivalry 6.09% was recorded. This study was aimed to see the effect of Parental Empowerment Programme (PEP) on knowledge regarding handling sibling rivalry among mothers of children with age group of 3-12 years.
Material & Methods: Pre-experimental research design was adopted to evaluate the effectiveness of Parental Empowerment Programme (PEP) on knowledge regarding handling sibling rivalry among 100 mothers of children with age group of 3-12 years in selected areas by using non-probability convenient sampling technique, data collected by interview method with the help of structured questionnaire.
Results: The study results shown that 61% of mothers had inadequate knowledge and 39% were in moderately adequate knowledge during pre-test and in post-test, after implementation of Parental Empowerment Programme (PEP) 100% of mothers gained adequate knowledge in selected areas. Which was statistically highly significant at p-value is <0.001.
Conclusion: The study findings reveals that the Parental Empowerment Programme (PEP) was effective, to bring out change in the knowledge regarding handling sibling rivalry.
