Children are the most valuable asset for any society. They are the builders of the future of any nation. Children are priceless resources. Child hood malnutrition, feeding problems, diarrhea, fever, and these along with upper respiratory tract infection contributes to high morbidity among children and remains a major cause of high infant and child mortality in our country. Hence this study was intended to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge of mother regarding Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illnesses (IMNCI) protocol, at Naramau Kanpur. Title of the study was “A study to evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding integrated management of neonatal and childhood illnesses (IMNCI) protocol among mothers of under five children residing at Naramau ”Kanpur UP.” Objectives of the study was to assess the pre-test level of knowledge of the mothers of under five children on IMNCI protocol, to determine effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding IMNCI protocol among mothers of underfive children, to find out the association between pre-test knowledge scores of mothers of under five children with selected demographic variables. Methodology adopted for the study was In the present study, Pre experimental design was adopted. The structured questionnaire was developed to collect the data. 50 mothers of under-five children; Sample selected by using convenient sampling technique, descriptive and inferential statistics was used to analyze the data. The overall pretest mean knowledge score obtained by the mothers was 15.06 (50.02%) with the standard deviation of 3.467 and the overall post test mean knowledge score obtained by the mothers was 19.02 (63.4%) with standard deviation 2.952. The total difference in the mean of overall knowledge score was 3.60 with the ‘t’ value of and found to be significant at the level of p<0.01. Results also shows that there was no statistically significant association between the knowledge score of the mothers with demographic variables at the probability level of p<0.05. The present study attempted to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge of mothers regarding Integrated Management of Neonatal Childhood Illnesses (IMNCI) protocol, at Naramau and concluded that there was a significant difference between the knowledge level of mothers of under- five children and structured teaching programme was effective in improving the knowledge of mothers of under-five children.
Childrens Are Priceless Resources, Malnutrition, Feeding Problems, Diarrhoea, Respiratory Tract Infection
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