KNOWLEDGE REGARDING KANGAROO MOTHER CARE AMONG LINK WORKERS

ABSTRACT Mother is one who gives birth of a baby, who cares for the baby and protects her baby from any harm. Kangaroo mother care is the method of care for all new born but particularly for premature babies and it is a special way of caring of low birth weight babies and it fosters their health and well-being by promoting effective thermal control, breastfeeding, prevention of infection, bonding, physical, emotional support to mother and baby also early discharge from the hospital from the hospital from the hospital. Kangaroo mother care was started in Columbia in response to shortage of incubators and serve hospital infection. This study was conducted to assess the knowledge and provide structured teaching programme to link worker to gain knowledge about kangaroo mother care which help to reduce the neonatal mortality rate to certain extent. With kangaroo mother care, we can save the babies from hypothermia and also gives the chance to babies for survive and thrive. Result revealed that in pre-test knowledge majority of link worker i.e. 65% were in below average group and 35% were having average knowledge. After STP 70% link workers came under good knowledge and 30% were under average knowledg