EFFECTIVENESS OF STRUCTURED TEACHING PROGRAMME ON USE OF COMMON SALT FOR TREATING UMBILICAL GRANULOMA AMONG MOTHERS

Abstract

Background and objectives: Umbilical granuloma is the most common umbilical abnormality in the neonate. It is an over growing tissue during the healing process of the belly button. Usually occurs in reaction to a mild infection. Umbilical granuloma commonly come to attention of parents because of persistent drainage or moisture involving the umbilicus after the cord has dried and separate. The study was done to identify the effectiveness of structured teaching prgramme on use of common salt for treating umbilical granuloma among mothers attending OPD at S.V.S. hospital, Mahabubnagar, Telangana. Materials and methods: The research design adopted for the study was one group pre test and post test, which belongs to pre-experimental design. 60 Mothers were selected by using simple random sampling technique of probability sampling technique method. A structured self-administered questionnaire was used for data collection which consisted of two parts. Part A consisting of 11 demographic data of the mothers and Part B consisting of 30 items regarding on use of common salt to treat umbilical granuloma among mothers. Posttest was conducted after 4 weeks. Results: The collected data was analyzed by using both descriptive and inferential statistics such as frequency and percentage distribution, mean, standard deviation, paired “t” test and chi square test at 0.001 levels off significance with 59 df. The calculated ‘t’ value was 33.19, which is higher than the table ‘t’ value 3.46 at 59df with 0.001 level of significance. It shows that there is significant difference (p<0.001) in pre test and post test knowledge scores. Hence it is concluded that after structured teaching programme on use of common salt for treating umbilical granuloma the knowledge scores of the mothers have been increased. Conclusion: The study has showed that there was an overall improvement in the knowledge of the mothers after implementation of structured teaching Programme.