Effect of Structured Teaching Program on Knowledge and Attitude Regarding Antenatal Care among Spouses of Primigravida in Selected Hospitals, West Bengal

Abstract

: Background: Husband`s involvement in seeking timely antenatal care is important. Their support can have a positive impact on health care of pregnant women, which successively depends on their knowledge and attitude regarding the importance of antenatal care. Use of antenatal health services is a good approach to scale back the chance of maternal morbidity and mortality especially in places where the overall health status of women is poor. By increasing the use of antenatal care (ANC) the risk of maternal death can be reduced. Methods : A non-equivalent control group pre-test post-test study was conducted among 80 spouses of primigravida 40 in the experimental & 40 in control group selected using non-probability convenience sampling technique to determine the effect of structure teaching program on knowledge & attitude regarding antenatal care among spouses of primigravida in Sonarpur Rural Hospital, West Bengal. Structured knowledge questionnaire & F ive point Likert scale were administered to obtain data. Results : The result revealed that mean post-test knowledge & attitude score (22.2 &129.1) in experimental group & (13.75 & 90.5) in control group were higher than the mean pre-test score in both group (( 12.5& 8 9 . 8 ) , ( 13.55& 90.15 r e s p e c t i v e l y ). The result revealed that significant improvement of knowledge as evident from corresponding ‘t’ value (‘t’(39) = 8.96, p≤0.05) & attitude (‘t’(39) = 4.52, p ≤0.05) after STP. Conclusion : Structured teaching program is effective to improve the knowledge & attitude of the spouses of primigravida on antenatal care.