Effectiveness of antenatal iec package on knowledge and attitude of antenatal mother’s spouses

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.