Associate Professor, Department of obstetrics and Gynecology, Annai Dora College of Nursing, Aundipatty, Tamilnadu, India

Assistant Professor, Vignesh Nursing College, Tiruvannamalai, Tamilnadu, India.

Staff Nurse, King Saud Hospital, Saudi Arabia.
Knowledge ,Attitude ,Family planning methods ,

Aim to evaluate the effectiveness of effectiveness of education programme on knowledge and attitude regarding temporary family planning methods among primigravida mothers. An evaluative research approach with pre- experimental one group pretest – posttest design was adopted for this study. In the present study 50 mothers were selected using non probability convenient sampling method. Data was collected from Vijayalakshmi Hospital. Data was collected regarding demographic variable, knowledge and attitude regarding temporary family planning methods among primigravida mothers. The investigator assessed the level of knowledge and attitude of primi gravida mothers by using structured questionnaire teaching by lecture, demonstration, video clippings and verbalization. Structured education programme was conducted on the same day on group wise each group consists of 18members. Data collection was done in Telugu and English the questionnaire was distributed to each mothers. At the end of the teaching the doubts were cleared. Then 10 minutes was allotted for discussion. The analysis finding indicates clearly that 86% of mothers had adequate knowledge and 90% of them had good attitude regarding temporary family planning methods among primigravida mothers. A well planned structured teaching programme given to the group. The effectiveness of programme showed high level of significant at p<0.001 level. It showed that structured teaching programme was an effective method to improve the knowledge and attitude there by the prevention of unwanted pregnancies. The study highlights that knowledge and awareness does not always lead to the use of contraceptives. There is still a need to educate and motivate the couples and improve family planning services to achieve more effective and appropriate use of contraceptives and to arrest the trend towards increase in pop

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