A Study to Assess the Effectiveness on Health Education Package on Knowledge Regarding Episiotomy Care among Primigravida Mother at Civil Hospital Moradabad

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: A current medical study proved that 60% of women with episiotomies reported severe post-partum pain, 25% experienced infection at the site and 20% had problem during intercourse for up to 3 months after child birth. Safe motherhood initiative announced in1987 had set targets to reduce maternal mortality by 50% in one decade where the safe motherhood aim is to enhance the quality of life Hence, it is evident that special care must be taken to prevent infection. OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY: To assess the level of knowledge regarding episiotomy care among the primigravida mother.To evaluate the effectiveness of educational package on knowledge regarding episiotomy care among primigravida mother.To find out the association of knowledge regarding episiotomy care among the primigravida mothers with selected socio-demographic variables. MATERIAL AND METHOD: In the present research study quasi-experimental (One group Pre & Post test design) design was used. The study was conducted at civil hospital Moradabad and 60 mother (21-31 years) were selected by Non-Probability convenient sampling technique. The tools designed to collect the data were socio demographic Performa and structured knowledge questionnaire regarding episiotomy care. RESULT: The present study in experimental group mean pre-test knowledge value was 7.23 and standard deviation value of pre-test knowledge value was 1.661 followed by mean post-test knowledge value was 16.37 and standard deviation value of post-test knowledge value was 2.107 respectively. The value of paired‘t’ test was 27.275 which statistically significant at 0.05 level of significance. Effectiveness of education package on knowledge regarding episiotomy care increase the knowledge level of mother in experimental group. CONCLUSION: Overall knowledge of the mother regarding episiotomy care was poor before education. After education the research study that the episiotomy care awareness was effective among mother by the increased level of knowledge of mother.