Study to assess the Knowledge regarding Complementary Therapies among Antenatal mothers attending Antenatal clinic in selected hospital at Kollam

Abstract

The research project undertook was “A study to assess the knowledge regarding complementary therapy among antenatal mothers attending antenatal clinic in the selected Hospital at Kollam.” The objectives of the study were to assess the knowledge regarding complementary therapies. among antenatal mothers attending antenatal clinic in a selected hospital at Kollam, to find out the association between the knowledge regarding complementary therapies among antenatal mothers and selected demographic variables such as age, qualification, religion, occupation, income and support person, non experimental survey design was adopted for this study. The study was conducted among 100 antenatal mothers who were attending antenatal clinic in Bishop Benziger Hospital at Kollam. In order to assess the knowledge of antenatal mothers regarding complementary therapies, the study sample was selected by non probability convenient sampling technique. The tool used for data collection consisted of demographic performa and structured questionnaire basic introduction of the study was given to the subjects. The analysis of the data was based on the objectives of the study using descriptive and inferential statistics. The findings of the present study revealed that there was significant association between knowledge and demographic variable like religion, education, area of residence, support person and source of information. There is no significant association between age, occupation and parity. Based on the findings the investigator has drawn implications which were of vital concerns in the field of nursing practice, nursing administration, nursing pattern, nursing education for future development. Keywords: Assess; structured questionnaire, complementary therapy; antenatal mothers.