EFFECTIVENESS OF STRUCTURED TEACHING PROGRAMME ON KNOWLEDGE REGARDING RESPECTFUL MATERNITY CARE AMONG NURSING STUDENTS IN SELECTED NURSING COLLEGES, GUWAHATI, ASSAM: EVALUATIVE STUDY

Abstract

Nursing is a very noble profession, an integral part of health care system, focused on providing proper holistic care to the sick and support to community in a best way. Respectful maternity care (RMC) is a universal human right that is due to every childbearing woman in every health system. However, many women across the globe experience disrespectful, abusive or neglectful treatment during childbirth in health institutions. Moreover, the health care workers and the student nurses were not aware about the concept of Respectful maternity care. Therefore, it is very important to impart knowledge among the student nurses. To nd out the effectiveness of Aim: structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding respectful maternity care among nursing students in selected nursing colleges Guwahati, Assam. A pre-experimental one group pretests and posttest design wa Method: s used to accomplished the objectives. Study was undertaken among 173 nursing students in selected nursing colleges Guwahati, Assam by using stratied random sampling technique. Selfstructured knowledge questionnaire was used to explore the effectiveness of structured teaching programme. Out of 173 nursing Results: students, in the pretest 70.52%, 24.86%, 4.62% had moderate, adequate and inadequate knowledge respectively. In post-test 63.58%, 36.42%, 0% had adequate, moderate and inadequate knowledge respectively. The mean knowledge score in pre-test and post-test was 17.32 and 21.57 with standard deviation of 4.44 and 3.62 respectively. The calculated paired 't' test value is 16.967 was found to be statistically highly signicant at p<0.001 level, which clearly infers that structured teaching programme was found to be effective in improving the level of knowledge in the post test. There was signicant association of knowledge with age, gender, batch, religion and place of residence. The investigator Conclusion: concluded that structured teaching programme was effective in bringing the desired changes in the knowledge of the nursing students.