A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Nurse Led Education on Knowledge of Mother Regarding Care of Neonates with Icterus in Selected Hospitals at Kanpur, U.P.

Abstract

Having a newborn baby admitted in NICU with Icterus is one of the most stressful experiences a parent can have for care of neonates.It is anunanticipated event and parents frequently differ in coping with this situation.In recent years, partnership with parents is a principle that is valued and promoted across pediatric health care systems internationally.This study aimed to assess the level 0f knowledge of mothers regarding care of neonates with icterus and to evaluate the effectiveness of nurse education on knowledge of mother regarding care of neonates with icterus. An evaluatory approach with one group pre- test, post-test pre- experimental design was adopted for this study. Convenient sampling was used to select the Hospital in Kanpur. 50 subjects were selected by using purposive sampling method. The collected data were analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics. There was a significant increase in knowledge of mothers regarding care of neonates with Icterus(t₄₉=30.928,P<0.05).There was a significant improvement in knowledge of motherafter Nurse led education (t49=17.792, p<0.05, t49=13.525, p<0.05). Hence Nurse led education was found to be effective in increasing the knowledge and improving the knowledge of mothers regarding care of neonates with Icterus.