Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme Regarding Prevention of Cholelithiasis among Antenatal Mothers in Selected Antenatal Clinics at Bangalore, Karnataka, India

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES This study was under taken to evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on Prevention of Cholelithiasis among Antenatal Mothers in Selected Antenatal Clinics at Bangalore. OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY 1. To assess the knowledge regarding prevention of Cholelithiasis among antenatal mothers who are attending antenatal clinics 2. To evaluate the effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on prevention of cholelithiasis among antenatal mothers 3. To identify the association between knowledge regarding prevention of Cholelithiasis and selected demographic variables. METHODS The study involved evaluatory approach with Quasi experimental research design, a non-probability purposive sampling technique was used to draw the sample.60 Antenatal Mothers were made to mark the structured questionnaire by following inclusion and exclusion criteria. The pre-test was followed by implementation of structured teaching programme and post test conducted after 8 days using the same structured questionnaire to find out the effectiveness of structured teaching programme. The results were described by using descriptive and inferential statistical analysis. RESULTS Regarding effectiveness of structure teaching programme, the overall mean knowledge score percent in the pre-test is 53.15 % and 79.32 % in the post-test. The mean knowledge score during pre-test is 21.26 and 31.73 in the post-test. The statistical Paired-