A Study on the Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on the Knowledge of Water Birth

Abstract

Child birth is always challenging. It is not a small thing to bring a new soul into the world and not a small thing to suffer so that another may have life. Instead of more Natural birth has always allowed for a woman to keep her power and her strength for the birth. Water birth allows less pain and less suffering and nurtures one’s belief in oneself. So, this study aimed at assessing and giving knowledge on water birth among staff nurses. The Research Design selected for the study was Pre-experimental one group pre test and post test design. The study was conducted on 60 staff nurses in maternity wards of selected hospitals using convenience sampling technique. The Pilot study was conducted on 14 staff nurses. Reliability of tool was computed by using Karl Pearson formula. The reliability of the tool was 0.96.On the first day pre-test was taken by using structured knowledge questionnaire followed by structured teaching programme. After one week of structured teaching programme post test was taken.In pre- test majority of staff nurses 58 (97%) had poor knowledge, and 2(3%) had average knowledge. But in the post test it was observed that most of staff nurses 35(58.33%) had good knowledge, and 25(41.66%) staff nurses had average knowledge. From this score it can be clearly concluded that staff nurses had inadequate knowledge regarding water birth before administration of structured teaching programme.