Effectiveness of Self-Instructional Module on knowledge regarding High-Risk Pregnancy among Antenatal mothers

Abstract

A high-risk pregnancy is one in which there is or will be an increased risk of morbidity or mortality for the mother, the fetus, or the baby before or after delivery. Between 20–30% of pregnancies in India are high-risk. Consequently, the purpose of the current study is to evaluate the impact of a self-instruction module on prenatal mothers' understanding about high-risk pregnancies. The study's pre-experimental research design was chosen. For this study, 63 prenatal mothers were chosen using the purposive sample method. Result: revealed that majority of the respondents (65.08%) had poor knowledge regarding high-risk pregnancy, (30.16%) had average knowledge and only (4.76%) had good level of knowledgepre-test. Whereas in post-test majority of the respondents (82.53%) had good knowledge and (17.46%) had average knowledge regarding high-risk pregnancy. The Paired‘t’ test value was 26.86 whichwas greater than table value at .05 level of significance. This shows that there is significant difference between the pre-test and post-test level of knowledge regardinghigh-risk pregnancyamong antenatal mothers. There was significant association found between the pre-test knowledge score regarding high-risk pregnancy among antenatal mothers with demographic variableslike educational status, type of family, previous knowledge and source of information regarding high-risk pregnancy. Conclusion: Study concluded with strong need for proper health education in improving knowledge regarding high-risk pregnancy among antenatal mothers.