A STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF INFORMATION EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATION MATERIAL ON KNOWLEDGE OF NEONATAL DANGER SIGNS AMONG RURAL POSTNATAL MOTHERS IN SELECTED AREAS OF GURUGRAM, HARYANA.

Abstract

Introduction: Young infants and newborns frequently exhibit vague symptoms along with indicators of serious illness. Nine neonatal danger signs were identified by the World Health Organization (WHO). The symptoms encompass an incapacity to feed or inadequate feeding practices, convulsions, fast breathing, intense chest constriction, fever (≥37.5°C), hypothermia (≤35.4°C), yellow soles, inactivity or only a small amount of movement upon stimulation, and signs of a localized infection (umbilicus red or draining pus, skin boils, eyes draining pus, etc.).Methodology: In this study IEC (information education and communication) material are used and give education to Rural mothers with the help of A.V. aids, charts, pamphlets. By face-to-face interaction data collection is conducted. Result: We collect data from 60 postnatal mother’s and conducted a pretest and post-test by using the structured questionnaire. Pretest result score that shows 20% (12) had inadequate and 66.7% (40) had moderate and 13.3% (8) had adequate knowledge. And post test data shows 1.7% (1) had inadequate knowledge and 40% (24) had moderate knowledge and 58% (35) had adequate knowledge. A paired "t" test was used to determine the significance, the calculated ‘t’ value is 7.41 was deemed significance at 0.05 level. Conclusion: Based on the findings of the study, it is concluded that postnatal mothers are able to increase their knowledge, after administration of IEC (information education and communication) material.