A Study to Access the knowledge of the Postnatal mothers regarding Shaken Baby Syndrome

AIM: The study aims to improve the knowledge of post natal mothers regarding shaken baby syndrome in SCB MCH, Cuttack. Design: A pre-experimental study design was used Method: purposive sampling technique was employed to select 50 post natal mothers in SCB MCH, Cuttack. Pre and post test data was taken by using self-structured questionnaire before and after the structured teaching program and data was analyzed and interpreted by using descriptive and inferential statistics. Hypothesis were tested at the 0.05 level of significance Results: The findings revealed that majority of mothers obtained below average pre test knowledge score after imparting STP, knowledge of mothers was increased i, e 80% mothers obtained excellent post test knowledge score with mean percentage 87.37%. Conclusion: Highly significant difference found between the pre test and post test knowledge scores of the postnatal women regarding SBS also there was no significant association between knowledge scores of the postnatal women in post test with their demographic variables. Structure teaching programme was effective for all the content area regarding SBS.