Effectiveness of ‘Self Instructional Module’ (SIM) On the Level of Knowledge Regarding Selected Minor Ailments and Their Remedial Measures among Pregnant Women

Abstract

Pregnancy is the most viewed from a physiological perspectives because of the dramatic physical changes the occurs throughout the pregnancy. Due to lack of knowledge of pregnancy related health problems, women often tends to ignore illness that is not very serious during pregnancy. A pre- experimental study was undertaken to assess the effectiveness of Self instruction module (SIM) on the Knowledge of antenatal Mothers regarding minor ailments and their remedial measures in community health center in Uttarakhand. Total 60 antenatal mothers were selected by simple random sampling technique. The pre-test was taken by using structured knowledge questionnaire designed by researcher and validated by the various experts in the specific field followed by self Instructional module. After 7 days post-test was taken. The overall mean pre-test knowledge score of antenatal mothers was (18.16±4.8) which reveals that mothers had good level of knowledge and mean post-test knowledge score of antenatal mothers was (25.3±4.3) which revealed that mothers had very good level of knowledge and t value for total pretest and posttest was (8.6). Area wise post-test highest mean percentage was (74.3%) in the area of remedial measures for nausea & vomiting, backache and leg cramps and the lowest mean percentage was (0.7%) in the area of minor ailments. No significant association was found between pretest knowledge scores with their demographic variables except educational status and type of family. The findings of the study concluded that Self Instructional module (SIM) was effective to increase the knowledge of postnatal mothers regarding minor ailments and their remedial measures.