Effectiveness of antenatal IEC Package On Knowledge and Attitude of Antenatal Mother’s Spouses

Authors

  • Chandbibi Pathan1 , Seeta Devi2 , Tejashri Ligade3

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37506/ijfmt.v14i4.12228

Keywords:

Antenatal IEC package, effectiveness, knowledge and attitude, spouses of antenatal mother.

Abstract

Background: In a family, a spouse is the most important and liable family member to take care of the
family members. He is the one who might take care of his wife in pregnancy period. Therefore, he must
be knowledgeable regarding antenatal care of his wife in pregnancy, but in India, alas! There is no much
involvement of husband in taking care of an antenatal women during pregnancy. Moreover, pregnant woman
is a care taker of a family and they are majorly neglected, it is happening since decades due to lack of
respect for a daughter-in –law in family.OBJECTIVES: 1. to evaluate the knowledge of pregnant woman’s
spouse about antenatal care. 2. To assess the attitude of antenatal mother’s spouse regarding Antenatal care.
3. To assess effectiveness of antenatal care on IEC package the knowledge and attitude among the spouse
of antenatal mother. Methodology: In this study researchers have adopted pre experimental one group
Pre- test post-test design. It evaluates and assess the effectiveness of knowledge and attitude of antenatal
care IEC package among antenatal mother’s spouses. The researchers also described the association among
level of knowledge as well as attitude using personal characteristics included in this study was age, religion,
education, family income and no of children. The sample size is 100. Non probability purposive sample
technique is used in present study. RESULT: In this section the mainconclusions of the present study
have been discuss as follows. The posttest knowledge score showed at higher level than the pretest score.
The mean post test score was greater than the mean pretest score. Thecalculated t-test statistic value and
Corresponding p-value are small and the posttest attitude score was greater than the mean pretest score.
Conclusion: It indicates that the IEC package was effective method for enlightening the knowledge and
attitude of mother’s spouses about antenatal care.

Author Biography

  • Chandbibi Pathan1 , Seeta Devi2 , Tejashri Ligade3

    MSc Nursing students,2Asst. Professor, 3Tutor, Symbiosis College of Nursing (SCON) Symbiosis International
    (Deemed University), Pune

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Published

2020-10-29

How to Cite

Effectiveness of antenatal IEC Package On Knowledge and Attitude of Antenatal Mother’s Spouses. (2020). Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, 14(4), 3833-3837. https://doi.org/10.37506/ijfmt.v14i4.12228