A Study to Assess the Effectiveness on Video Assisted Health Education Teaching Programme regarding Post - Partum Intrauterine Devices among Antenatal Mothers in Selected Rural Areas at Haridwar

The rapid increase of human population is putting an incredible strain on our environment. The effects of human population growth are the problem of global warming, deforestation at an alarming rate, shortage of food and water, depletion of resources and biodiversity, production of waste and destruction of natural habitat, pollution are the serious problems that must be addressed in order to ensure that life on earth will be sustainable throughout the next century. Hence there is a need to check population growth all over the world. Family planning is critical aspect in the World. An evaluative research approach was used with one group pre test and post test design to evaluate the effectiveness of Video assisted health teaching program. Purposive sampling technique was chosen for the data collection was structured knowledge questionnaire which comprised of eight items in demographic data, 30 items on knowledge regarding all the aspects of PPIUCD. The reliability of the tool was established by Split half method technique with reliability of the knowledge (r= 0.72). the pretest was administered to 30 antenatal mothers followed by Video assisted health teaching program. After 14 days, post - test was conducted to some samples using the same tool. The result shows that the knowledge of Antenatal mothers regarding PPIUCD. In the pretest 76.67% Antenatal mothers had inadequate knowledge; 23.33% had moderate knowledge and none of the Antenatal mothers had adequate knowledge. In post - test 23 (26.67%) Antenatal mothers had adequate knowledge; 07 (23.33%) Antenatal mothers had moderate knowledge and none of the Antenatal mothers had inadequate knowledge. The mean pretest and post - test knowledge score regarding immediate PPIUCD. The paired t - test value for PPIUCD knowledge value is 39.666. It was found to be significant at P<0.05 level, Hence research hypothesis (H1) is accepted and null hypothesis was rejected.