A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Video Assisted Teaching Programme on Infant Rearing Practices Among the Multiparous Antenatal Mothers in Belagavi. A Hospital-Based Study

BACKGROUND: The infant rearing means the process of bringing up of the child from the birth to the adulthood. It promotes the physical, emotional, social intellectual development of the child. Rearing practices encompasses the feeding practices as well as the traditional caring practices which are influenced by religion, literacy of mothers, socio – economic status of the family and the community. OBJECTIVES To assess the self reported practices of Antenatal mothers before video assisted programme. To assess the effect of self reported practices of Antenatal mothers after video assisted programme. To associate the pre practices with selected socio- demographic variables. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY: A Pre – Experimental one group pre and postest design was used to the present study. The data was collected from 60 multiparous antenatal mothers through convenient sampling technique. Self-organized survey was used for the data collection. RESULTS: The mean age of the mothers was 26.27. Majority of the mothers were Hindu 73.33%, majority of the children 53.33% were belonged to male category, maximum 36.67% mothers completed their SSLC, 58.34% belonged to joint family, 51.67% mothers resided in the rural area, majority mothers 36.67% had family income of 15,001 to 20,000 and 88.34% mothers were house wives. There was increase of the postest scores difference between the pre and postest was statistically significant ( P value < 0.05). In pretest 63.33% mothers had poor knowledge and 36.67% mothers had good knowledge regarding the infant rearing practices whereas in post test 91.66% mothers had good and 8.33% poor knowledge regarding the infant rearing practices. CONCLUSION: Findings of the study acknowledged that there was significant raise in the post test scores and hence the Video was effective in doing this.