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A STUDY TO EVALUATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF STRUCTURED TEACHING PROGRAMME ON PELVIC FLOOR EXERCISES FOR PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF URINARY INCONTINENCE AMONG POSTNATAL MOTHERS AT VANIVILAS HOSPITAL, BANGALORE, KARNATAKA

Shanthamma B.*

ABSTRACT

Background and objectives: Urinary incontinence is a major female health problem between the ages of 25 to 45 years. The incidence is higher in women who have given birth and also increases with parity. Health personnel have more responsibility in the prevention and control of urinary incontinence by educating the postnatal mothers regarding pelvic floor exercises. This study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on pelvic floor exercises for the prevention and control of urinary incontinence among postnatal mothers. Methods: The research approach is descriptive and evaluate approach, the research design is Quasi experimental one group pretest post test design, the setting is in postnatal wards at Vanivilas Hospital, Bangalore. The samples include 50 postnatal mothers selected by purposive samplingtechnique. The tool consists of Part I demographic data consisting of 12 items, Part II Structured interview schedule consisting of 40 knowledge items, Part III observational checklist consisting of 26 items. The reliability of the tool was established by using split half technique, value was found for knowledge test was 0.9653 and for skill test was 0.9423. Results: The findings of the study shows that mean post test knowledge score (31.90) of the postnatal mothers was higher than the mean pretest knowledge score (18.94) and also shows that mean post test skill score (18.9) of the postnatal mothers was higher than the mean pretest skill score (5.9) which shows that the study was effective in increasing the knowledge and skill scores of the respondents. Interpretation and Conclusion: Over all findings showed that the structured teaching programme was effective in improving knowledge and skill score of postnatal mothers. The mothers may gain knowledge by attending health education programmes and gain skill by performing pelvic floor exercises.

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