Educational intervention on Kangaroo Mother Care ( KMC) among Antenatal care women.

Objective To assess the change in knowledge of antenatal women regarding kangaroo mother care (KMC) after explaining the process and its benefits. Materials and method An educational interventional study on 120 antenatal women attending OPD of UHCs after informed verbal consent. A predefined questionnaire was modified and tested before the study. Statistics Appropriate statistical tests were used whenever necessary. Results Post intervention, Knowledge regarding all the variables have significantly improved, e.g. time of stating KMC (from 43.3% to 90%), duration of each session 9.2% to 95.8%), frequency of KMC (10.8% to 89.2), clothing and positioning of mother (4.2% to 94.2% and 3.3% to 96.7% respectively) as well as the baby (0 to 99.2% and 5.8% to 92.5% respectively). Knowledge regarding benefits to mother and baby has increased significantly after the intervention. Knowledge about comparison between different pairs of closely related variable regarding KMC also shows significant improvement. Doctors are more preferred source of information for KMC. Conclusion and recommendation Significant improvement in knowledge about various aspects of the practice of KMC shows that the educational intervention is effective. A greater involvement and active role by the health workers and doctors would have a lasting impact.