A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of a Health Education Programme on Application of Kangaroo Mother Care of Low-Birth-Weight Babies in Terms of Knowledge and Practice among Post Natal Mothers at Selected Gujarat Medical & Education Research Soc

A pre-experimental study was conducted to assess the Effectiveness of a Health Education Programme on Application of Kangaroo mother care of Low-Birth-weight babies in terms of knowledge and practice among post-natal mothers at selected Gujarat Medical & Education Research Society hospitals of Gujarat State. The samples of 40 post-natal mothers were selected through simple random sampling technique.A structured knowledge questionnaire and structured observational checklist were prepared to assess the knowledge and the practice of the samples.Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics.Result depicted that the mean pretest knowledge score was 10.27 and the mean posttest knowledge score was 17.30.The mean pretest practice score was 8.37 and the mean posttest practice score was 14.07.There was significant increase in the knowledge and practice of post-natal mothers after the administration of the health education programme on kangaroo mother care.Hence it is concluded that health education Programme was effective in improving the knowledge and practice of the post-natal mothers.