A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on Knowledge and Compliance regarding Daily Fetal Movement Count among Antenatal Mothers in Selected Hospital

The aim of the study was to assess effectiveness of structured teaching programme on practice about self assessment of fetal well-being among primigravida women. The Design of the study was a quasi-experimental design. The studied participants comprised all eligible pregnant women according to inclusion criteria amounting to 140 of women. Tools of this study included socio-demographic characteristics, fetal kick count chart, antenatal grow chart using fundal height, anthropoemetric measurements and gestational weight chart. There was a highly statistically significant difference between the mean score of total practice among the studied participants at the pre-test and the post-test intervention. It was concluded that, there was a higher statistical improvement in the maternal' practices about self-assessment of fetal well-being after using fetal kick count chart, antenatal grow chart after measuring symphysiofundal height and gestational weight gain chart than before. It is recommended that encouraging the use of fetal kick count chart, antenatal grow chart and gestational weight chart to self-assess fetal wellbeing as it is safe and less expensive for pregnant women.