This paper is published in Volume-5, Issue-3, 2019
Area
Child Health Nursing
Author
Kavita Sharma, Dr. Vijay Laxmi Verma
Org/Univ
Rohilkhand College of Nursing, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India
Pub. Date
07 June, 2019
Paper ID
V5I3-1754
Publisher
Keywords
Postnatal, Breastfeeding, Kangaroo mother care

Citationsacebook

IEEE
Kavita Sharma, Dr. Vijay Laxmi Verma. A descriptive study to assess the knowledge regarding kangaroo mother care among postnatal mother with the view to develop information pamplets in Rohilkhand Medical College and Hospital Bareilly, International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology, www.IJARIIT.com.

APA
Kavita Sharma, Dr. Vijay Laxmi Verma (2019). A descriptive study to assess the knowledge regarding kangaroo mother care among postnatal mother with the view to develop information pamplets in Rohilkhand Medical College and Hospital Bareilly. International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology, 5(3) www.IJARIIT.com.

MLA
Kavita Sharma, Dr. Vijay Laxmi Verma. "A descriptive study to assess the knowledge regarding kangaroo mother care among postnatal mother with the view to develop information pamplets in Rohilkhand Medical College and Hospital Bareilly." International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology 5.3 (2019). www.IJARIIT.com.

Abstract

A descriptive study to assess the knowledge regarding Kangaroo mother care among postnatal mother in Rohilkhand Medical College and Hospital with the view to developing information pamphlets. The objective of the study is to find out the association between the levels of knowledge of postnatal mothers with their selected demographic variables. The nature of the study was non-experimental. This was conducted in Rohilkhand medical college and hospital, Bareilly. The research design used was non-experimental. The data were collected to assess the level of knowledge about Kangaroo mother care. The data collected were analyzed and interpreted by using descriptive and inferential statistics. Major findings of the study revealed that the knowledge score of the study,33.3% of the postnatal mother have good knowledge level,60% of the postnatal mother have average knowledge level, and 3.3% of the postnatal mother have poor knowledge level and mean was 17.76, median was 18, mode was 21 and standard deviation was 4.47. It can be concluded that in our study knowledge score was average regarding Kangaroo mother care, after implementation of a questionnaire program the knowledge of postnatal mother was improved. Hence the questionnaire programme was effective.