ISSN: 2265-6294

Effectiveness of Video Assissted Planned Teaching Programme on The Knowledge Regarding Breast Crawl Among Antenatal Mothers in Selected Hospital, Tumkur

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Mrs. Jasmi Johnson, Mrs. S. Andal, Mr. Satheesh A, Ms. Shahin Usmani, Ms. Shahin Usmani

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Seven pounds, ten fingers, ten toes, two eyes and zero instructions. Human being tends to think their own offspring as one of the most helpless newborns on planet Earth. But human baby is not as helpless as we might think. Mother Nature equips newborns with wonderful innate sense of cues. One such example called ‘Breast Crawl’ demonstrates process of initiating breastfeeding exclusively by baby’s own ability.A pre experimental study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of video assisted planned teaching programme on the knowledge regarding breast crawl among antenatal mothers in selected hospital, Tumkur. The research design was one group pretest post test design. The total study sample consists of 50 antenatal mothers in a selected hospital at Tumkur, selected by purposive sampling technique. The mean of overall pre test knowledge score was 13.86 and the mean of overall post test knowledge score was 27.04 .Improvement in the knowledge score of the samples from pre test to post was tested for statistical significance using paired t-test (t=2.70), shows significant difference between pre and post test score(p0.05 )

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