EFFECTIVENESS OF STRUCTURED TEACHING PROGRAMME ON KNOWLEDGE REGARDING MANAGEMENT OF COVID-19 IN PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH AMONG NURSES IN SELECTED HOSPITALS, GOALPARA, ASSAM

Abstract

Background of the study: Pregnancy is a very important event and are at high risk of infected COVID-19, because pregnancy alters the immune system. Nurses play a key role in ghting this disease and are at risk of infected and spreading COVID-19 infection. As it is new disease, it is very essential to know how to take care, prevent and protect antenatal mothers and newborns from infection. Therefore, there is an urgent need to assess the knowledge of nurses and establish appropriate interventions to reduce the crisis in this pandemic. The rst conrmed antenatal case of COVID-19 was reported on 21st January 2020 in Qingdao, china who was a 31 years old at 30 weeks of gestation presented with mild diarrhea (2-3 times a day) for one day. To nd out effectiveness of structured Aim: teaching programme on knowledge regarding management of COVID-19 in pregnancy and childbirth among nurses in selected Hospitals, Goalpara, Assam. Quantitative research approach was used, and pre-experimental Method: one group pre-test post-test design was adopted in the study. The samples were collected using non-probability purposive sampling technique from 100 nurses, who were doing government job in selected Hospitals, Goalpara, Assam and who fullls the inclusive criteria. Structured questionnaire was used to explore the effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on knowledge regarding management of COVID-19 in pregnancy and childbirth Data analysis was Result: done by calculating mean, standard deviation, chi square test and t-test. A total of 100 nurses, It was found that in the pre-test, majority i.e. 77(77%), 21(21%), only two (2%) had moderate, inadequate and adequate knowledge respectively. In post-test, majority i.e. 56(56%), 44(44%), 0% had adequate, moderate and inadequate knowledge respectively. The mean knowledge score in pre-test and post-test was 17.15 and 23.29 with Standard deviation of 2.79 and 2.69 respectively. The calculated paired 't' test value is 20.960 was found to be statistically highly signicant at p<0.001 level. This shows that there was signicant difference between the pretest and posttest scores of knowledge, which clearly infers that structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding management of COVID-19 in pregnancy and childbirth was found to be effective in improving the level of knowledge among nurses in the post-test. There was signicant association of knowledge with only educational qualication. Through this study, the investigator concluded that struct Conclusion: ured teaching programme was effective in bringing the desired changes in the knowledge of the nurses.